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buttes, in the north-east comer, which pay tythe ; the waine- 

 way into this close is in att the gate a Uttle within the gate of 

 the Greate Sikes. 



The Spellowe* is 4 indifferent dayworkes, and had in it (this 

 yeare) five score and nine grasse cockes, which weare fower 

 good loades ; of these the httle Staggarth had seaven ; the 

 waine-way into this close is in att the gate on the west side. 



The Chappell-Garth'' is 2 dayworkes, and had in [it] 55 grasse 

 cockes, which weare two good loades ; this close is tythe-free, 

 and the usuall waine-way into it is in att a gappe adjoyninge 

 on Howsam-lane, wheare a peece of hedge is to be pulled 

 downe. 



The Hither Longe Close is 6 good dayworkes : it is tythe- 

 free, and had in it (this yeare) eleaven score and sixe grasse 

 cockes, which weare nine loades ; the highway into this close is 

 up the Carre lane, and soe in att the gate-steade at the faiTe 

 ende. 



The Farre Longe Close, or East Close, is 1 dayworkes ; it is 

 tythe-free, and had in it (this yeare) seaventeene score and 

 twelve grasse cockes, which weare allmost sixteene loades ; the 

 waine-way into tliis close is in att the gate that is beside the 

 CaiTe-gate. 



The Fower-Nooked peece is allmost halfe a dayworke, and 

 had in it (this yeare) 17 grasse cockes ; it payeth tythe, and is 

 aUwayes lettin with the Farre Longe Close because the high- 

 way into this close lyeth through the Farre Longe Close. 



The Lane (commonly called the Carre lane, because it is nowe 

 made the high way into the Carre) is not halfe a day-worke ; 

 it belongeth to the Demaines, and is therefore likewise tythe- 

 free ; it had in it (this yeare) 13 grasse cockes. 



* In the north--west comer of this close is a semicircular plot of ground, which 

 was specially exempted at the time of sale and seciu-ed to the heu's of the Rev. 

 Francis Best in the following words :— "The Portion of land No. 39 upon the Plan, 

 (one printed in 1843) as now fenced in, having been used as a Burial Groimd, is ex- 

 cepted out of these Particulars of sale, except one foot in width on the West side 

 thereof adjoyning the Road ; which foot in width is to be subject to a right of road 

 for the Vendor and his heirs for the pui-poses of Interment and of repairing the Tomb 

 and Fences, but for no other purpose ; it being distinctlj' understood that the free- 

 hold of the said Burial Ground (except as aforesaid) shall remain in the Vendor and 

 his heirs but shall not be used for any purpose whatever except for the interment of 

 the said Vendor and his family ; and in case of anj attempt on the part of the Ven- 

 dor and his heirs to make any other use of the said Groimd the same shall be con- 

 veyed to the Purchaser of the Estates comprised in these Particulars his heirs or 

 assigns." Francis Best, Esq., was buried in this private vault in 1779, and 

 Rosamond [Constable] his widow in 1786, the service being read in Little Driffield 

 Church. 



•> Foundations still exist in this garth, but of what antiquity I cannot say, nor am 

 I aware of any licence for a chapel at ElmswcU. 



