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are neaver stirringe above two lioures before day, because they 

 are soone enough if they gette but thither by eleaven of the 

 cloeke ; oates goe allwayes well of on Wensdayes and Satter- 

 dayes in this place, if soe bee that the Tewsdayes and Frydayes 

 bee calme-dayes, for then doe the Lincoln-shire men come over to 

 Hull ; and to these doe Beverley oatemeale men vente and sell a 

 greate parte of theire oatemeale, which they carry and sell againe 

 in Brigge markette, and other marketts thereaboutes. When our 

 folkes goe to Malton, they are usually stirringe fower hours be- 

 fore day, which is aboute three of the cloeke, and then will 

 they be aboute Grimstone by the springe of the day, and att 

 Malton by nine of the cloeke att the furthest ; for in winter 

 time that markett is the quickest aboute nine of the cloeke, or 

 betwixt nine and tenne ; because the badgers come faiTe, many 

 of them ; whearefore theire desire is to buy soone, that they 

 may be goinge betimes, for feare of beinge nighted. Good 

 beanes are dearer then pease by 12d. or 18d. in a quarter ; 

 for when barley is aboute 20s. and 21s. a quarter, then are pease 

 aboute 12s. and 12s. Qd. a quarter, and beanes aboute a marke 

 and 14s. a quarter. Wee oftentimes buy our seede pease att 

 Greate Dryffield, for chainge for the Middle and West fields ; 

 they are usually deare att Killam aboute Candlemasse and a 

 weeke afore, or a fortnight. Att St. Hellenmasse, and soe aU 

 summer longe, when our folkes are to go to Beverley-markette, 

 they goe out of om- owne yard aboute halfe an lioure after 

 fower of the cloeke ; in summer time allsoe they goe (most 

 commonly) with each of them sixe horses, soe that when they 

 carry oates, two of them goinge with twelve horses, they carry 

 nine quarters att a time, for they lay sixe bushells on an horse, 

 soe that fower horse load of oates is three quarters : on markett- 

 dayes our folkes doe as on other dayes, for soe soone as they rise 

 they make and give to every two horses a bottle of hey, and 

 that serveth them tiU theire panneUs bee sette on, and what is 

 left, is there ready for them against the time they come hoame ; 

 then, soe soone as theire pannells are on, and every thing fitted, 

 they leade them forth, and looke howe many each man goeth 

 with, and soe many are tyed togeather, each in others tayle ; 

 then doe they carry one company after another to the garner 

 doore, and turninge them aboute with theire heade towards 

 the gates, all the feUowes that are able to carry poakes fall to 

 loadinge, and in loadinge they give every horse halfe his loade 

 before that any one bee wholly loaden. Then one of the boyes 

 setteth open the broad gates, and soe soone as they are gotten 

 out, shutteth them againe ; the other folkes goe usually with 



