102 RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



them to the Bricke-wall nooke or lane-ende, till theire poakes 

 beginne to sattle and lye well ; then when they come backs, 

 they fall to muckinge of the stables, and after that to filhnge of 

 the standheckes, servinge and wateringe of the younge calves, 

 if there bee any unputte forth, servinge and wateringe of theire 

 plough-horses, and other goods aboute the yard : the first time 

 that waines were seen (this yeare) to goe to Malton with corne 

 was Satterday the 3()th of Aprill. On Satterday the 21st of 

 May, there weare sixe that came from Agnes Bm-ton, Low- 

 thorpe and Har{)ham ; they wente all night, sette downe theire 

 corne, and tooke in such thinges as weare bought the Satterday 

 before and left for them, and weare mette out of Malton before 

 seaven of the clocke. It is ill going to Malton with draughts, 

 when the fields adjoyninge to the high- way are most of them 

 fough ; when om* draughts wente eyther to Malton or Hiddisley- 

 quarrey, looke howe many wente, and they had each of them 

 victualls putte up for three meales ; for they wente forth usually 

 on Fry day aboute fower or five of the clocke, and wente usually 

 as farre as Duggleby field, and there loosed and feathered theire 

 cattle ; and when the pinder had come they would have given 

 him victualls, and hee would have been well pleased. On Sat- 

 terday the lith of May, and on Satterday the 21st of May, 

 cleane rye was as deare as good dodd-read-wheate, and dearer 

 then massledine ; for cleane wheate and cleane rye weare sold 

 for fower nobles a quarter, and massledine somewhat abatinge 

 of 26s. a quarter : barley was (att the same time) soe downe att 

 Malton that it would not sell for above 20s. a quarter, and wente 

 oft' the same time att Pocklington att 21s. a quarter ; and wee 

 had barley (tliis yeare) which would not of att Malton at 19s. 

 a quarter, and wee ctirryed a sam])le to Beverley, and solde a 

 score to three Beverley-men for twenty powndes ; the reason 

 was because barley used to goe soe well of att jMalton that 

 there was seldome any carryed to Beverley markett from this 

 side of the countrey. On Wensday the 1st of June wee solde 

 twenty quarters of wheate to a baker in Yorke, and twenty 

 quarters of massledine to other two ; for, the kinge* beinge 

 there, the marketts weare very quicke. In winter allsoe wee 



■ Charles arrived at York the 19th of Mareh previous. It was on the 23d of April, 

 1G42, that he went to Hull, to be refused admittance hy Sir John llotliam; on tho 

 22nd of May tho Lord Keeper Littleton joined him at York ; on the 2nd of June the 

 ship Providence, sent by the Q\ieen with anns and amunition, anived ott' tho York- 

 shire coast, and on the 22nd some lords and officers of state entered into an en- 

 gagement to defend his person, crown and dignity. The following allusion to his 

 stay at York ocous in the llcgister of the Holy Trinity, Goodramgate ; 1642, July 

 28, was buried Richard Rostcmc, postillion to Prince (')iarles. 



