38 RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1G4I. 



Of the Number of Datvvorkes and Loades of Hey that 



WEARE IN EYERIE PARTICULAR ClOSE. 



First of the closes belonginge to the Manner-howse. 



The South Wandell close, with its bottomes, is 8 day^vorkes, 

 or will serve one mower 8 dayes ; it is tythe-free, and had in it 

 five score and tenne grasse cockes, which weare allmost five 

 loades. The North Wandell close is 4 goode dayworkes, with 

 its bottomes ; it is tythe-free, and had in it this yeare, viz., 

 1641, 53, which weare two good loades. The waine-way into 

 this close is in att the gate adjoyninge to Pocklington gate. 



The Lords-garth is 3 sufficient dayworkes ; it is tyth-free, 

 and had in it 94 grasse cockes which weare allmost 4 loades ; 

 the waine-way into this close is aboute the middle of Finder* 

 lane, wheare yow are to pull downe a gappe. 



The Cunnigarth,'' with its bottomes, is 4 large dayworkes for 

 a good mower ; it is tythe-free, all but for the peece called 

 Akam Garth ; it had in it, this yeare, nine score grasse cockes, 

 which weare 8 loades ; the bottomes thereof are not to pay any 

 tythe because they weare waste grownde, and wonne from the 

 river ; noe, not the bottomes that are against the peece of 

 grownde called Akam Garth neaver have, neyther ought to pay 

 any tythe : the manner is, for these bottomes, fii-st to make 

 them into grasse cocke, and soe to lette them stande fower or 

 five dayes, till they have had a sweate ; and then to make the 

 heymakers goe, two and two togeather, and to putte theire 

 forkes and rakes under the cockes, and soe to bringe the cockes 

 whole and altogeather up the hill ; then are yow to throwe 

 three or fower of them togeather into greate cocke, that they 

 may bee ready and stande easie for the waines to come to ; the 

 waine-way into this close is att the gate by Styringe-lane, pull- 

 inge down a little peece of the hedge on the south side of the 

 gate. 



The Mount-Sikes" is 5 dayworkes, and liad in it (this yeare) 

 seaven score and two grasse cockes, which weare 5 good loiules 

 of hey ; it is likewise tythe-free, exceptinge some little shorte 



» "Wc here meet with what is still the genius of the North Country (lialeits, the 

 rejection of the possessive s. 



^ Common as this name may be, as applied to a gartli, it liaa its own sij^nificance 

 here. The warren.s of Coldham, Hurdale, and Drirtield-preets, or Kellithorpe, were, 

 in tlu'ir day, most celebrated. Above a hundred trees grew in it till lately. 



" The Mount- Sikes doubtless derived its name from a numnd in one corner of it. 

 Having opened several Anglo-Saxon barrows in the neighbourhood with success, 

 Lord Londcsbrougb c\it it away, but it proved to he only a nuturul deposit of 

 sand. 



