RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 85 



20d. and 22d., and if they bee very large and whole woU'd for 

 2s. a peece ; but as for our field-sheepe that dye aboute this 

 time, wee sell theire skinnes usually for lOd. and 12d. a peece, 

 and if it bee a large one and lacke noe woll for 14cZ., but if it 

 bee an hogge-sldmie and salvy, then for 7d. or 8d. Grasse 

 Cometh first aboute the hedge sides, because the warmest and 

 most mannured ; but that is the sourest, and sheepe dehght 

 most in the grasse that groweth in the field, after they have 

 once tasted it, and especiall younge sheepe who seldome eate on 

 the heads. See more of this subjeckt after the notes for levy- 

 inge of polle-money. 



THE MANNER OR FORME OF A DISTRINGAS OR 

 LEVY. 



East Riding : Com : Eborum. These are in his Majesty's 

 name to commaund you to levy upon the severall goods of the 

 hereunder written the severall summes hereunder written and 

 sette upon theire heads, beinge assessed and rated upon them 

 towards the releife" of the poore infeckted people in HuU, be- 

 inge in arreare and to bee disposed on for and towards the 

 releife of the poore of divers townes infeckted with the plague 

 within this ridinge ; by way of distresse and saile of theire said 

 goods, rendringe unto the owners the overplus that shall re- 

 maine upon your said saile ; and if any of the said persons 

 have not sujSicient goods whearby the sayd summes may bee 

 levyed by way of distres, that then you bringe such person or 

 persons before some of his Majesty's Justices of Peace of 

 this Ridinge to bee by them ordered accordinge to lawe, hereof 

 faile yee not att your periUs ; given under our handes and scales 



» The following briefs occur in the Register : — 



1658. July 18. Collected to a brief in the Parish of Little Driffield (granted by 

 Oliver Lord Protector of ye commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c., 

 to Robert Blanchard, Mayor of Hedon, William BurstaU, Richard Southwick, 

 Richard Barnes, and Henry Stringer aldermen there and other inhabitants of the 

 said towne upon the certificate of William Lord Strickland and others persons of 

 quality in the said county of York upon a loss by fyer nere fewer thousand pounds 

 in the saide towne of Hedon July ye fifth 1657 42 familes were burned) the sum 

 of too shillings and eleven pence. Witnesses Ralph Mason [Vicar], Gilbert Lam- 

 bert, . Richard Parrott, William Styring, George Acklom. Collected to the said 

 brief in the parish of Great Driffield the sume of 6s lid. by Raph Mason, Richard 

 Hansby, Richard Thirley, Richard Pearson, Roger Newton, Edward Nettleton, and 

 John England. 



1668. Oct. 25. for the poor captives in Algier and Bally in the Turkes' domi- 

 nions 11^. 



166. . Dec. 20. for the repaire of the priory [sic] of Hartlepool 3d. 



