100 Rl'RAL KCONOMY IN Yt)RKSHIRE IN 1641. 



dine. Dodd-read wlieate goeth oftentimes well of att Bridling- 

 ton, betwixt Martynmasse and Christmasse, and then doe wee 

 sende a sanii)Ie of our wheate to the shipmasters (by the salters 

 that goe thither), and allsoe the price of onr come, and then, if 

 wee can agree, they sette downe a day ; and wee sende our 

 come to that Key," or other place assigned ; this wheate 

 is carryed by shippinge to Newe-Castle and Sunderland. After 

 that wee are begun to markette, wliich is aboute Martynmasse 

 or soone after, wee sende constantly twice a weeke, viz. ; all- 

 wayes our oates to Beverley on the Wensday, and oftentimes 

 on the Satterday allsoe ; wee sende our dodd read wheate and 

 massledine usually to Malton markette ; our barley to Beverley 

 and Pocklington in winter time, and to Malton in summer. 

 Wee seldome sende fewer then eight horse-loades to the mar- 

 kette att a time, and with them two men, for one man cannot 

 guide the poakes of above fower horses. When wee .sende oates 

 to the markette, wee secke them up in three-bu.shell poakes, and 

 lay sixe bushells on an horse ; when wee sende wheate, rye, or 

 massledine to markette, and allsoe when wee sende bailey, wee 

 putte it into mette-poakes ; wee are forced to putte part of our 

 corne into halfe quarter-seckes, and these wee lay on horses 

 that are short coupled and well- backed. Our servants are (in 

 winter time) to bee stimnge soe long afore day that they may 

 bee att markette before eleaven of the clocke, or howsoever by 

 eleaven at the furthest. On Wensday, when they goe with 

 oates to Beverley, they putte theire horses into stables that are 

 hard by the markett place, wheare there is hey ready for them 

 against they goe in ; and there doe they j)ay hal-pennies a peece 

 for theire horses, for theire hey and stable-roome : but in the 

 Satterday markett, they have hoast-howses wheare they dine, 

 and therefore stal>le-roome for nothinge ; unlesse they call for 

 hey for theire horses, and then doe they pay for that they call 

 for. Those that buy tlieire corne will sometimes force them to 

 spende a pennie or twopence for beinge benehciall to the howse 

 whearin they lodge, and that wee wilHngly allowe them agaiiie ; 

 wee allowe them allsoe fower pence a peece for theire dinners. 

 Norfolke is a great come soyle, and a champion country like 

 unto Yorke-.shire ; there was one man in Yorke that liought 

 3000 quarters of barley (this yeare) all att a time, and brought 

 it hither by sliippinge ; nio.st of it hee malted himself, and the rest 

 hee sold in tlie markettes ; hee bought it for 14.<?. a quarter, 

 whereas wee solde ours att the same time for 21.s. and 22s. a 

 quarter. In winter time, when our folkes goe to Beverley, they 



• Thus the name of the port *• Bridlington Quai/," us distingnishcd from tlu' town, 

 ie of no modem giowth. 



