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is undressed, an upheaped bushell and an upheaped pecke ; for 

 in every bushell of meale that commeth from the mill there is 

 very neare a pecke of chizell drossed out ; which, hereaboutes, 

 is called treate, in the South-coimtry, branne : the miller taketli 

 his mowter of the corne soe soone as it is helde into the hopper, 

 and not of the meale ; and his due is a quarter of a pecke att 

 every bushell ; for out of every bushell they take one of theirs 

 dishfuHs, and they make account that fower mowter dishfulls is 

 a pecke. Our kimbhnge is a just bushell, and wee have founds 

 such difference in the millers, that in the grindinge of two 

 bushells of corne, wee have received a pecke and an halfe more 

 of tempsed meale from the one, then wee have had of the other, 

 of untempsed meale, for his two bushells. 



For Buyinge and Sellinge of Butter. 

 . Butter is bought and solde e\i;her by the pownde or the cake, 

 and in every cake there is two pownde : in the beginninge of 

 Lente wee pay usually lOd. a cake, i. e. od. a pownde ; aboute 

 the middle of Lente wee pay 9d. a cake ; aboute the beginninge 

 of Aprill Hd. a cake, i. e. id. a pownde ; aboute the 20th of 

 Aprill 3(7. a pownde ; and then aboute the middle of May it 

 will fall to two pence and two quarters a poA\Tide : and then is 

 it att the cheapest; and beinge att the dearest, it is lid. a 

 cake : wee neaver sold none of our owne under 4c?. a pownde, 

 and nowe of late wee sell it altogeather for 5c?. a pownde : if 

 wee chance to wante in Lent-time, wee furnish oui'selves eyther 

 att Beverley, or Malton markett, which country-folkes bringe 

 thither to sell, but the best buyinge is att Beverley ; one may 

 bee well furnished allsoe att Frodingham ; when wee intende 

 that our foreman shall buy butter att the markett, wee leave 

 him out a maunde and a cloath the night afore ; I have knowne 

 us buy and spende, constantly, tenne and twelve pownde of 

 butter in the weeke. 



ShORTE REilKMBRANCES FOR BUY^INGE OF ALL SORTS OF LiNNEN 



Cloaths. 

 Such hnnen cloath as is here made in England and commonly 

 called huswife-cloath,* is of divers prizes, divers breadths, and 

 serveth for divers uses ; as some there is of lid. or 15c?. the 

 yard, beinge in breadth yard and halfe quarter, which our mayd 

 servants usually buy for holyday aprons, crosse-cloaths, and 



" The following are prices in the year 1632 : — " 2 yards of harden cloth, 16d. ; 10 

 yards of lining, 6s. 8d. ; 6 yards of femble cloth, 3s. ; 10 yards of white lining, 

 10s. ; 2 yards of white carsey, 5s." The following in the year 1641 : — " 14 yarda 

 of femble cloth, 12*. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s." 

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