24) RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



the lambes, hee is to take some of tliis ball and therewith to 

 anoynt theire thighe-holes ; the butter is for heaUnge the sore, 

 and the tanse}' for keepinge away Hyes. Many will (att that 

 time) carry with them a baskett, and therein a puder-platter 

 and table-napkin, to save the lambes stones in ; which are ac- 

 coimted a very dainty dish, being fryed with parsley ; then 

 after they are fryed browne, yow are to take of the two up- 

 permost filmes, and to eate nothinge but the very innermost 

 kernells ; and these, beinge thus liandled, are called Anchit 

 ricoaL' 



For Pilinge and Tithinge of Wooll. 



Wliosoever desireth to keepe well his wooll and to profitte 

 thereby, ought especially to provide good winders, and after 

 that a goode roome, whearin to lay his wooll. The roome 

 wheare the wooll lyeth shoulde alhvayes bee bordened under 

 foote, because that earthen, l)ricke, and stone floores are all- 

 wayes moist and dampish, and suffer not wooll to dry. The 

 wooll shoulde allwayes bee kept under locke and key ; not 

 onely to preserve it cleanly from dirte and duste, but allsoe from 

 the fingers of theevish and ill-disposed servants. There goeth 

 of wooll (as of other thinges) l-i pownde to the stone ; and 

 usually sixe of our ordinary fleeces make a just stone ; if the 

 fleeces bee very good, five of them will bee a stone, and if they 

 bee bad, seaven. Wee have two leade weights sealed, and an 

 iron weight with a ring, which are each of them 71b. or halfe a 

 stone. When yow pile yoiu- woll, yow are to lay it to an ende 

 or side of the roome, and yett to liavean especiall care that yow 

 lye it not too neare the walls. In pilinge of wooll the usuall 

 way is to lye downe tenne fleeces in length one besides another, 

 and then to lieginne againe and to lye other tenne above them, 

 and 10 above them, tilltiie pile bee as high as yow thinke goode 

 to make it, which perhapps may bee some 10 or 20 fleeces in 

 heio-ht ; then may yow, if yow please, beginne another pile, 

 and sette it just afore that, or in another place aparte from it. 

 When the ])arson or procter commeth to tythe his wooUe, yow 

 are to aske liim wheare or att which ende hee will beginne, and 

 when hee hath told yow. yow arc to take the two fleeces next 

 the ende for yo\irselfi*. and tlie procter is to have the third ; 

 and then are yon to take of the other 7 fleeces which remaine 

 for yourselfe. If there bee any odde fleeces remaininge, yow 

 are to see what and howe many there is of them ; and if there 

 bee just five of them, then they are to bee layd downe togea- 



' Sen mwp on this head after "my Lord Fincho's custom at Wntton for rlip- 

 ping." 



