126 RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



which is layde the nexte chesse beneath it save one, and goeth 

 the same way, and soe by thus doinge there are holes, of that 

 bignesse that one may thrust in theire neafe, which goe from 

 the toppe to the bottonie, whearby the a\Te getteth to all partes 

 of them, and seasoneth and dryeth them ; they allsoe lyinge 

 just 10 boards in every chesse or layer, [yow] can justly tell 

 what there is on them att any time ; and, lastly, the boards 

 Ijdnge thus crosse, one chesse one way and another another, 

 they lye very lirme, out of all dainger of castinge. Wee bought 

 (this yeare) 200 of reade deale, of one Francis Taylor of Hull, 

 att 4^. 15s. the hundreth ; they weare bought on Satterday, the 

 19th of March, 1642 ; wee sent Robert Bonwicke worde on 

 May-day, beinge Sunday ; hee went from Wansworth on Mun- 

 day att noone ; gott to Hull on Tuesday, and hoame againe on 

 Wensday ; wee sente one to Hull on Munday, the 2nd of May, 

 to see them boated ; hee payd Sd. a score for carryinge downe 

 to the boate, and gave them ■id. over to drinke ; the porters 

 carryed each of them three deales att once ; they will scarce 

 suffer any other men to cany them, although they bee theire 

 owne ; the porters have 3c?. a score when they bringe them 

 from the shippe to the merchantes howses ; wee payd allsoe two 

 shillinges for towle or custome for the two hundieth ; on Thurs- 

 day morninge, the 4th of May, wee sente fower of our waines 

 to Pai-son pooles for them ; they brought three score in each 

 waine ; they layd them edg-wayes, or else a waine would not 

 have helde above forty deales ; they thought that 1 deales 

 weighed as heavy as a quarter of barley, which is 30 stone ; 

 whearefore theire loades weare very greate, for five quarters of 

 barley is accounted a greate waine load ; for they (for the most 

 parte) carry but a chalder, i. e. fower quarter, or nine seckes in 

 a waine, when they caiTy the most. 



See more of this subjeckt in the third booke before the cjita- 

 logue of faires." 



A Note shewinge howe the Landes have formerly layen 

 IN THE Pasture. 



There is belonginge to the demaynes in the pasture one lande 

 and an halfe, next unto the West-hall pasture close ; 2 landes 

 nexte them, for the East-howse or Finders farme ; 4 landes next 

 unto them, belonginge to Skeltons farme ; 4 next them, to La- 

 bornes farme ; 3 to Edwards farme ; 2 to the Fower oxegjinge ; 

 2 to Whiteheads farme ; 3 to Lynsley farme ; 5 to tlie West- 

 liowse farme, next the east balke. One lande and three sweath 



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