30 RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



Carre immediately after they are greased, and there to keepe 

 them till such time as wee beginne to fodder. Wee provide 

 usually sixe or seaven greasers ; and they ^vill grease, ordinarily, 

 each of them sixe lambes a day, and oftentimes seaven, when 

 the lambes are small, They are eyther to have pennies a peece 

 for all the lambes they grease, or else to bee att meate and 

 wage, and then are they to have Sd. or id. a day and theire 

 meate ; but the more usuall is to give them pence a peece for as 

 many as they grease. They are usually two dayes aboute them, 

 and they are to have boardes or doores to lye theire lambes on 

 while they grease them. 



How TO MAKE Salve. 



Yow are to putte to every pownde of tallowe a quarte of 

 tarre and a pottle of tarre ; and two pownds of tallowe is sayd 

 to bee sufficient for a score lambes, unlesse they bee very large. 

 In makinge of your salve, yow are first to rende or melt your 

 tallowe in a panne ; and your tallowe beinge melted, yow are 

 to take your tarre and putte it into the potte wheare yow in- 

 tend to keepe your salve, and then to poore in yoirr melted tal- 

 lowe amongst it, havinge a ro^vnde sticke ready whearwith to 

 stirre them togeather ; and to ply your stiriinge as fast as yow 

 can, otherwise the tallowe will liarden and runne all in lumpes 

 amongst the tarre ; but yow are to have an especiall care that 

 the tallowe bee neyther too hotte nor too colde ; for if it bee 

 too hotte, it will scalde the tarre and make it over soft ; if it 

 bee too colde it will coole too fast, and soe runne in lumpes doe 

 what yow can. Killam faire, on All Saints day, is one of the 

 last fjiyres, and a greate sheepe faire, l>nnge (as it weare) be- 

 twixt Holdernesse and the Wolds, and is sayd to bee a ride for 

 the country from that time till the springe ; and one might 

 have bought there (this yeare) good handsome ewes, and well 

 mouth'd, ''for 3s. Gd. a peece, and indifferent good lambes for 

 2s. Gd. 



See more concerninge the greasiiige att the ende of the trea- 

 tise of bees, as alsoe for markinge of them aboute Mart^nmiasse 

 time, and alLsoe for fotheringe. 



For Selling e of Woll. 

 Wee solde our woll (this yeare) to a Beverley-man the Ist of 

 Aprill, and had for it 8s. a stone, besides 1 2d. in earnest ; and 

 if wee had kejjt it a fortnight longer, might have had Os. Gd., 

 if not lOs. a stone ; and it was re])()rted by some that they 

 woulde sell that woll for 1 2s. in the West, if not for 1 3s. 4(/. or 

 14s. a stone. The man that bought it came and weighed it, 



