120 UUUAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



letten but two, whearefore wee putte tliem to the Greets. Mrs. 

 Salvyn her gates on the Greets are allwayes att a rate, viz. ; 5*. 

 4(Z. a cowe-geast ; her nowtheards wage is 20«. in money, the 

 milke of a cowe, and a cowe-geast ; besides hee hath allsoe the 

 mucke on the cowe-hill, wheare the beasts lye on noones, which 

 hee can lett« for 4ed. a weeke : shee letteth the mucke of the 

 cowe holde' to poore folkes for 8d. a weeke : the beasts are most 

 of them sente in on St. Hellen day, and the day after, some per- 

 happs not of a weeke after ; the nowt heard hath for every 

 beast one pennie, which is caDed a wontinge jjenny ; hee taketh 

 them all in himselfe, and perhaps keepeth them a weeke till 

 they bee wonted and hanted togeather, and after that setteth a 

 boy or girle to tente them. Mrs. SalvjTi hath raysed her halfe 

 gates from eight groates to three shillinges : soe soone as our 

 foreman came from Thissendale and had dined, wee sente him 

 to her to take geasts for eleaven, whearof seaven weare yeer- 

 inges, and fower, two yeare olde ; the yearinges weare large, 

 and the two yeares little, soe that there was little difference in 

 theire bignesse, soe that they wente all for halfe gates, beinge 

 that they coulde not bee discerned : besides, if they bee not full 

 two yeare olde they are called but yeeringes : wee seldome sende 

 money till wee fetch them away : besides, on the Greets, poore 

 folkes putte on theire kyne, and seldome speake to her for them 

 to knowe what they shall pay tiU theire time be expired, beinge 

 that they knowe her usuall rate ; wee sente our foreman and 

 two boyes with them that night, beinge Fry day the 6th of May, 

 they had each of them an horse. 



See more of this subjeckt in the latter ende of the second 

 booke, before the remembrances for hyringe of servants. 



For Providinge of Hecke-stowers and Harrowe- 

 spindles. 



Att Martynmasse, or aboute a weeke after Martynmasse, 

 wee sette our foreman to cuttinge of white-wilfes, reade-wilfes, 

 and saughs, for hecke-stowers and harrowe-spindles ; hee is to 

 have charge given to cutte them as neare to the gi-ownd and 

 bodyes of the trees as po.ssibly hee can : and then, afore hee 

 cutte of the twigges, to see what the branch is fittest for, and 

 to make that of everie bough and branch that it is most fitte 

 for : some will be for fiayle-handstaifes ; some that have 

 creches will bee for rake-shaftes ; some for hecke-stowers ; and 

 the smallest sort of them for harrowe-spindles ; some for cradle- 

 teeth ; and some shorte ones for plough-st<iffes. Hee hayth for 



• " 1671. To Eobprt Dorman thr cow-foM pro 9«. nnd two couple of woodrolss." 

 Sir Timothy ^Vhittingham. 



