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1619. Eobert Jefferson to have 40d. wages, besides the godspenny I 

 gave him, and an old hatt, and a pair of old showes. — Nov. 5th. Paid 

 to Mr Pearson the Procter for my tithe, due at Michaellmasse last, 18s. 

 — Nov. 20. Symond Huson hath in his keepinge of myne tenne score 

 old sheepe, and 19 lambes. 



1619-20, Feb. 5. Pd to my brother PauU, 7?. ; for a jerkin I bought for 

 him, 15s. — 1620, Apr. 4. Agreed with Matthewe Carter, for paylinge the 

 swyne stye with sawen ashe pa vies, to give him for his worke 9d. 

 yeardes, and hee is to sawe them, and to sawe the rayles and postes, 

 and sett them in a groundsell, and rabbitt them in to the rayle above ; 

 agreed also with him to pale the yearde, and hee is to sawe the rayles 

 and postes, and to have 4.d. per yearde, for his labor, and for making 

 Austin's howse, 20s. — May 12. Pdto Humfrey, my uncle Henry's man, 

 for my brother PauU, 31. — June 20, pd to Mr Bucke for him, 51. ; pd to 

 Mr Harris' man for him, 71 — July 6. pd for a dublet of Phill and chany 

 for him, 22s. Pd for him more in money, 61. — July 3. Nowe in Sy- 

 mond Huson his keepinge, 41 lambes, viz. ; 10 wether lambes, 5 rig- 

 gers, 2 rammes and 24 gimmers. — Sept. 1. Paid to Matthewe Carter 

 when I was at London, 20s., and 4s. Anthony had before. — Dec. 12. 

 Paid to Symon Huson in full for his wages, his ewe, and his knit- 

 tinge, 5s. 2d. Agnes Scadlocke to have 15s., and a pair of showes, 

 besides her godspenny, from the tyme shee came till Martynmasse 

 1620. 



1621, Oct. 4. Sold to John Fearnley' barley 30 quarters, at 18s. 

 per quarter; and I am to deliver it to the boatemen, and pay the 

 boate hyre, but hee is to beare the hazard by water — 271. — Nov. 

 18. Pd to John Lambert more hee lent my brother PauU, Is. 7d. — Dec. 

 12. A note taken what sheepe I had in Symond Huitson's keepinge ; 

 fowerscore and fifteene weathers and rames, fowerscore and fifteene 

 ewes and gimmers, threescore and 2 hogges — 12 score and 12. — Dec. 

 12. Thomas Wilbert oweth barley I busheU, 2s. 7d., and strawe. Id. 

 Layd out for my brother Paul the 28th of May, 1621, of a new reckon- 

 inge ; for a hat, 8s. 6d. ; and for dyinge and facinge his other, lOd. ; 

 sent to my Cozen "Walter** Best for him, by Lambert, 3s. 2d. — May 28. 



a In the Parish Register of St. Michael-le-Belfrey, York, is the following entry : — 

 " James Best and Grace Feamely married Jan. 22, 1615-6." It seems almost cer- 

 tain that this was his third wife. Two of the receipts for the fee-farm rent were 

 for money received by the hands of John Fearneley, gent., and both are subsequent 

 to the date of this marriage, viz : May 2, 1616, Jan. 18, 1616-7 ; and in 1623, 

 May 12, John Fearneley gives Henry Best a receipt for 3^. to the use of Eobert 

 Wyse, for a messuage in Elmswell. 



*> He was eldest son of Edward Best of New Malton, yeoman, whose will, dated 

 July 12, 1604, names his sons Thomas, William, John, and Edward ; his daughters 

 Alice, Jaine, and Mary, and his wife Katherine, who was sister of Anthony Duddiug, 

 yeoman. It is worthy of remark how constantly the same christian names accompany 

 the same surname, where no connection can be traced between the families. A Wal- 

 ter Best appears a juryman in the city of Oxford in 1275; a Philip Best was Mayor 

 of Shaftesbury, co. Dorset, in 1446 ; another was about the same date a merchant at 

 Calais ; and a third baptized seven children at St. Mary's, BishophiU Junior, York, 

 between the years 1665-1684, and buried a son, Valentine, in 1673. A Peter Best 

 of Hrdl has just been named, and in the Harleian MS. (1584-62), is a draught of 

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