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lyinge long in the gamer, and soe will meale with lyinge longe 

 unused in the howse ; besides the mise will make greate wast 

 in it if it lye in a place wheare they can come to it ; whearefore 

 it is a folly to sende more come to the mill than one hath pre- 

 sent use for. Wee sende (in ^v^nter time) a mette'of massledine 

 for our o^v^l tempsed-breade bakinge ; in the heate of summer 

 wee sende but a bushell, because it ^v^ll moulde and bee wasted 

 with longe standinge. Wee sende for the browne bread-bak- 

 inge (in winter time) a bushell of rye, a bushell of pease, and a 

 bushell of barley ; and afore wee putte it in the poake, wee 

 make the miller take a besome and sweepe a place, and poore 

 it on to grownd, and blende it alltogeather with his hand, and 

 after that take a scuttle and putte it into the poake : in summer 

 time wee sende but a mette, because it will growe hard with 

 longe standinge, \\z. ; a bushell of pease, and a liushell of rye, 

 into which wee putte a rjdnge, or two, or three, of barley. Wee 

 sende for our owne pyes a bushell of the best wheate. Wee 

 sende for the folkes puddinges a bushell of barley ; but neaver 

 use any rye for puddinges, because it maketh them soe softe that 

 they runne aboute the platters ; in harvest time they have 

 wheate puddinges. The folkes pye cnists are made of massle- 

 dine, as our bread is, because that paste that is made of barley 

 meale, cracketh and cliecketh. Poore folkes putte usually a 

 pecke of pease to a bushell of rye ; and some againe two peckes 

 of pease to a frundell of massledine, and say that these make 

 hearty bread. In many places they giinde after-logginges of 

 wheate for theire servants pyes ; and fewe there are that grinde 

 any barley att all for theire houshold use, because it is soe shorte, 

 and will not abide workinge. When wee sende oiu* come to 

 mill, wee allwayes stnke all cleane of; yett the use is in most 

 places to handwave it, and not to strike it : when they hand- 

 wave it, they drawe the corne lightly aboute in Die bushell wath 

 theire hand, when they think that the bushell is fidl enough ; 

 but the millers will say that they had as leave have come 

 stricken, as soe handwaved and left hollowe in the midst. If 

 the miller bee honest you shall have an upheaped bushell of 

 tempsed meale of a stricken' bushell of corne ; and of meale that 



' The editor of the Richmondshirc and York Wills has favoured mo with the fol- 

 lowing extract from the Corporation books of Richmond: — "Md that the 10th of 

 Jully 1G08 the Earle of Cunihorlnnd's stceardos and connscll Sr Stephen Tempest kt., 

 Stephen Tayler, and George Ilcillcs gent, did wryett and send Richard Coot<?8 and 

 William Parke yeoman, to gctt one pecke sealled witli our standerd (as their mea- 

 Buera haith allwayes formerly bene) but this pecke to conteync stryken with a strj'- 

 kell as mutche as our standerd pecke holdetli u])cheaped, because their nieasuers at 

 Skipton is ussed to be with our standerd but ui)chcaped,'* &e., &e. The uso of the 

 upheaped measure was abolished in 1834, by 5th and 6th Win. IV., cap. 63. 



