42 RURAL FXONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1C41. 



the men are to goe downe the lane, and soe tume theire waines 

 in the West beckes, and come and take up the cockes which are 

 brought to the side and throwne togeather, 7 or 8 into one, and 

 sette against the lowest peeees of the hedge. 



The Fower Oxegange Close next the Cunni-garth is scarce a 

 dayworke ; it had in it 28 grasse cockes, whicli weare a very 

 greate loade. 



The Fower Oxegange Closes next the howse are likewise one 

 dayworke, and have beene taken to mowe for Hd. 



The Little Close, or West Close, belonginge to Laboume 

 farme is one dayworke, and had in it (this yeare) 30 grasse 

 cockes, which weare a very greate loade. 



Other shorte Remembrances. 

 That peece or parcell of gTownde in the Cunnigarth which is 

 called Akam-garth, and payeth tythe, is not (as many suppose) 

 all those three landes compassed in bet%\dxt the two bankes ; 

 but onely one of them, limited by the breadth of Leonard 

 Goodales orchard, and goinge direcktly downe from the same ; 

 for in that howse lived goodman Akam, to wliome this close 

 belonged. It is severed and knowne, by the banke on the 

 North side, and by a bryer-bush, and an ash tree on the South 

 side. The tythe of the Carre was taken (this yeare) for U. 13s. 

 4d., and by that party letten to another for 21. Is. Hd., and hee 

 that tooke it, had of the teend, fower loades of hey. When 

 wee ledde hey, wee ledde constantly five loades a day with 

 every waine. One mower will mowe as much gi-asse as shall 

 come to a loade and an halfe ; and one good spreader %vill 

 spreade as much in one day as a mower will cutte in sixe. 

 Looke howe many heymakers yow have, and yow may expeckt 

 that there shall bee soe many goode loades raked and cocked in 

 a day, as they are in number. 



Of Harvest Workes, and first of Shearinge. 

 Wee beganne to sheare massledine this lOth of August, 

 beinge Thursday ; those tliat sowe cleaue rye beganne to sheare 

 the 1 2th of August ; wee made an onde of our massledine in 

 fower dayes, and beganne to sheare wheate the 2()th of Augu.st, 

 beinge Tlnu'sday, 1041, which wee finished in two dayes. The 

 best sort of men-shearers have usually Hd. a day, and are to 

 meate themselfes ; the best sorte of women-sheari'rs have (most 

 commonly) ChL a day; yett if wee have any shearing-worke to 

 doe alter that wee are beg\mne to mowe, and chance to take of 

 any men from mowinge to shearinge, wee are to give them 

 mowers w.ages, viz. : \()d. a day, if they bee such as canne 



