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Layd out for 2 ruffs, and thredd to make them, Is. Sd. ; for a doble 

 band, Gd. ; for a pr of showes, 2s. 6d. ; for one yeard of ribbiu, 9d. — 

 June 4. More in money delivered to him, 5s. ; for carridge from Cam- 

 bridge,'' 9s. 9^/. ; for a pr of stockings, 8s. ; and for 4 bands 5s. — July 

 5. Paid to William Newlove of Malton, for my brother, 13s. ; paid to 

 my brother to go to Boules, 3s. ; paid to my brother, Ss. when hee 

 went to William Taylors, and Sd. for a dozen of poynts ; when yow 

 went to Yorke, 5s. ; to Peter Linsley for yow. Is. 2d. ; to John 

 Lambert, Is. Id. ; layd out for yow at Yorke, 2s. 6d. ; to pay for 

 yow to Water Best, about 13s. — Aug. 5. To my brother a giidle, 4s. ; 

 a pair of silk garters, 3s. Qd. ; for a staffc and slinge, and mendinge 

 your showes ; pd to my brother to go to John Lambert's weddinge, 5«. 



1621-2, Jan. 10. 1 qr barley, 1/.; barley a bushell, 2s. 6d. — Jan. 15. 

 Matthew Carter, barley a bushell, rye a pecke, Ss.Ad. — Jan. 21. John 

 Simpson oweth mee for sheepe skinnes, and hath 3 calve skynes of mjTie 

 to dresse, which he is payd for, 5s. — Jan. 20. Barley 3 peckes, rye a pecke, 

 2s. 9<;.— 1622, April 1. 2 bushells of barley, 5s. — April last. Bought of 

 Richard Essy 2 kyne, to pay 12 bushells of barley for bread, and 3 busheUs 

 of barley for seede. — Bought of William Whitehead a cowe, to pay for 

 her a qr of barley for bread ; of Stephen Hewson a cowe, to pay for her 

 4 bushells of barley for bread and 10s. in money ; of an other woman 

 of Driffeyld a cowe, to pay for her 3 bushells of barley, a bushell of rye, 

 and 1 Os. in money ; bought of W^illiam Marke a cowe, to pay for her 

 16s. in money; sent fewer of these kyne to Skipsy out Leyes to feed 

 and paid for there gates, when they went, till Michaellmas. — Roger 

 Thompson of Cottam oweth barley a qr, IZ. ; pd by jeast cattell ; Law- 

 rence Middleton a bushell of wheate, 4s. 6d. — June 4th. A note taken 

 of my sheepe at there clippinge, and there was nyne score and nj-nteene 

 sheepe, and fifty eight larabcs ; in Symond Hewitson's kecpinge ; John 

 Bonwicke to have 6^. in money, 8 bushells of barley, 2 bushells of oates, 

 and a pecke of oatemeale, and a frise coate, and a stooke of strawe 

 every weeke fi"om Chrissmas to Lady Day in Lent ; Synion Hewetson 

 to have 51. in money, and 10 sheepe wintered, and the rent of his 

 howse and gai'th the next yeare ; and I to pay for his cowes cost on the 

 Greets the next somcr ; paid Ralph Specke by 1 quarters of barley, 

 10/ — Dec. 22. 2 bushells barley, 6s. 6rf., oatemeale a pecke, Sd. 



1622-3, Jan. 4, barley a bushell 3s, 4d.; Jan. 6, 4lb. of suite, Is.; 



instructions for Captain Peter Best and Sir William ScUingcr, aboard the two good 

 shippcs called the Garland and Bonavontiirc, in their intended voyage to Aberdyin, 

 Scotland. Peter Best and Anne ClyfFord were married at Christ Church, Newgate 

 Street, London, Sept. 7, 1553. 



" " Paul Best was entered at Jesus College, Cambridge, 1604-5 ; became A.B. 

 January, 1609-10; A.M. 1613." [Rev. Joseph Boniilly, A.M., llegistrar.l Ho 

 was Fellow of Catherine Hall, Feb. 13, 1617-«. In the year ir)51 he was living at 

 11 utton Cranswick, his birthplace. The Register of Little Driffield has this entry : 

 "Paull Best master of Arts dyed at gicate Driffield September the seaventeenth and 

 was buried at litle Driffield in the church yarde Ao dni 1657." In the Register of 

 fireat Driffield is this entry : " Paid Best gent, dyed on the eighteenth day of Sep- 

 tember, 1657, and was buryed the ninctcicnth day att little Driffield." 



