13G RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



but as for tlie other dayes in the weeke they make no greate 

 matter. I heard a servant asked what hee coulde doe, whoe 

 made this answeare, 



/ can aowe, 

 I can moive, 

 And I can dacke, 

 And I can doe, 

 2Iij master too, 

 When my master turnes his bach. 



They will say to a mayde, when they hire her, that if shee have 

 but beene used to wa-shinge, milkinge, brewinge, and bakinge, 

 they make no question but sliee can sweepe the howse and wash 

 the' dishes. When servants goe to the sittinge, they putte on 

 theire best apparrell, that theire masters may see them well 

 cladde ; they gette theire breakefasts, and soe goe to the sit- 

 tinge immediately, yett the townes are seldome called before 

 tenne or eleaven of the clocke, yett they will stay till it bee 

 allmost darke, afore they come hoame, and then have they theire 

 dinners ; and if they bee hyred, they are not to goe to the 

 latter sittinge. 



See more hereof in the latter ende of the second booke, as 

 allsoe concerninge the statute acktes for the same. 



A BRiEFE Declaration of the Notes of all the kindes of 

 Weights to which are (most commonly) used among 

 Physicians for compoundinge and makinge of Medi- 

 cines. 



1 ; grana Gr. ; 2 ; scrupuli 3 ; 3 ; drachmae 5 ; t ; uncia? ^ ; 5 ; 

 quar. qr. ; 6 ; librre tt). ; 7; semis/s; 8; mauipuli M ; 9; puguH P ; 

 10 ; Ana. uikl Have these notes or markes in memory. — Phihp 

 Barrough," physitian and author hereof, whoe, for his skill in 

 this kinde, is much accounted of 



A graine is a barley corne taken in the midst of the eare ; a 

 scruple is twenty barley cornes ; three scruples conteine a 

 drachme ; eight drachmes conteine one ownce ; quart signifieth 

 a quarte of any thinge ; libra is a pownde ; semis is the halfe 

 of every weight ; manipulus is a greate handfull ; pugiUus is a 

 small handfiUl ; Ana signifieth of every one a hke muche. 



Chapter of Ycirk, held in 1481. It is reported of Driffield Mnp^na that "Una cam- 

 pana est fracta. Agnes Marshall, alias Saunder, de Emeswell, cxcrcet offiiium ob- 

 stctrieis, et non habet usum ncque scientiam obstetriccndi. Utitur eciam incanta- 

 tionibiis." 



» It is intcreatinf? to know the inventor of signs still in use. Philip Barrough 

 wrote "Method of Physick, eontuiniug the cau.ses, signs, and cures of inward 

 diflcaaea in mau's body, from head to. foot." London, 1610, 1617, 1684, 1639, 4tn. 



