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up your skinnes one above another, but to hange them out theire 

 full breadth with the woU downewards, and then shall yow not 

 neede to feare the breedinge of malkes ; and after they are 

 once dry, sell them or pull them immediately, before the wooll 

 diy in or beginne to shewe hairy. Plough folkes are not to goe 

 with over deepe hold on such lands as are fold-mucked ; for if 

 they doe they bury the mucke deepe in fallowinge, and soe the 

 landes are neaver better for foldinge. 



FOR MARKETTINGE AND SELLINGS OF CORNE. 



Barley will usually outseUe oates 8s. a quarter. Rye will 

 outsell barley, hereabouts, 7s. in a quarter : dodd-read-massle- 

 dine (if the wheate bee a pubble, proude and well-skinned 

 corne) wiU outsell cleane rye 1 2d. in a quarter : whitewheat 

 massledine will outsell dodde-read-massledine 6d. in a quarter : 

 dodd-reade-wheate and white-wheate massledine are oftentimes 

 both att a rate ; yett sometimes the wheate will outsell it 6d. 

 or 8d. in a quarter : grey-wheate and longe reade will outsell 

 dodde read oftentimes 3s. and tenne groates in a quarter ; of 

 which two grey-wheate is the more accounted of : white-wheate 

 will outsell grey-wheate (constantly) lialfe a crowne or eight 

 groates in a quarter ; wee solde (this yeare aboute a fortnight 

 afore Christmasse) oates for 14s. a quarter ; our best barley for 

 22s. the quarter ; cleane rye for 27s. 6d. the quarter ; dodd- 

 read-massledine for 29s. 6d. the quarter ; cleane dodde reade- 

 wheate for .30s. the quarter ; and the best white wheate was 

 then at ll. 15s. a quarter. Beverley bakers wiU seldome buy 

 any dodde read wheate for white bread, unlesse they chance to 

 buy it for mixinge with rye and makinge of rye-breade, for it 

 is usually a blea, flinty, wheate ; that is, if yow bite a corne 

 asmider with your teeth, yow shall see that the meale of it is of 

 a darkish, bley, and flinty colour, and maketh nothinge soe 

 fayre and pure bread as doth the white, gray, and longe reade 

 wheate. Beverley men are alltogeather for grey wheate and 

 longe reade, and say that the meale of these is a farre whiter 

 and fayrer meale then the meale of dodd read ; and indeede 

 grey-wheate is a very pure wheate if it bee not infected with 

 slaine ; and soe is long read if it bee not infected with a wheate 

 called driven-wheate ; which wheate hath noe awnes like unto 

 long-read, yett oftentimes commeth up amongst it, and liinder- 

 eth the sale thereof, for it is a very course and flinty wheate. 

 White wheate is most in request att Malton, and white wheate 

 massledine is (there) fan-e more desired then dodde read massle- 



