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Jan. 12, rye 2 peckes 2s. 6d., strawe a threeve 2d. ; Jan. 15, barley a 

 bushell 3s. 6d.; January 31, lib. butter Bd. ; February 18, oates a 

 bushell Is. Ud. ; Feb 27, lib. butter 4d.; March 5, 21b. butter 7d. ; 

 a cheese I2d. ; March 14, a pecke of oatmeal dd. ; March 23, oates a 

 bushell 2s. ; a cheese I5d. ; barley a bushell 3s. 8d. ; March 29, barley 

 a bushell 4s. — Agreed with John Lanckton to pay me for the trespass 

 his father's sheepe made in my rye 30s., to bee payde at Midsomer. — 

 April 1, wheate a pecke Is. 4d. ; oates a bushell 2s. ; rye a pecke I5d.; 

 wheate a bushell 5s. 4d. ; butter lib. Sd. ; for a pair of stockinges 6d. ; 

 William Huitson hath payd by a quarter of veal 8d. of his rent ; oatemeale 

 a pecke lOd. ; a cheese V2d. ; a cheese lOd. ; a cheese 7d. ; a pair of 

 showes for William Miller I6d., a pair of boots 2s.— Sent the 1st of 

 May to Beeforth, to John Specke, 5 yonge cattell, which are half gates, 

 and 4 whole gates, and paid him in full for them 20s. per John Bon- 

 wicke ; they are marked on the right home IB. Sent to Skipsey 

 Leyes,* to Goodman Kell, the same tyme, 6 yonge bease, 4 of them 

 steares and 2 whyes, in all 6 gates, at 4s. 9d. per gate ; and paid him 

 in full for theire gates the same tyme, 28s. 6d., till Michaellmas, by 

 the hands of my brother Specke, which I sent him by William Miller. 

 — May 9. Sent to Mr Thomas Sillvester at Cattlam, being Friday, 4 

 horses; to pay dd. per horfse by the weeke for there grass. — May 12. 

 Sent to Mr Constable of Cathrop 8 bease, 4 oxen, 2 kyne, and 2 whyes ; 

 to pay 5d. per weeke for there grasse, severally ; bought of George 

 Wise 2 steares, to allowe him for them Si. 18s, and to lend him them 

 till Michaellmas next ; bought of Eobert Wise one oxgange of come, to 

 pay him lor it ol. 6s., and hee is to bee at cost to gett it fitt, and then 

 to leade it in deu tyme to my barne.'' — June this 9th. There are olde 

 sheepe of myne, with an ewe I bought of Symond Hewson, in his keep- 

 inge, eight score and seaventeene, and fowerscore and 3 lambes, at this 

 clippingv3.'= — June 10. Bought of William Whitehead one branded 

 rigelle whye, and a little blacke rigele stot ; to allow him 3^. for them 



a Mich. Eecord. — 12 Eliz. Eot. 14. " De Johanne Eokeby LL.D. Prebendario 

 Prebendse do Driffield onerato cum arreragiis 201. de annuali redditu solvendo sub 

 nomine de Ley Thanes ad 61. 13s. id. per annum. 



" The Prebendary of Driffield hath tythe com and hay of Driffields Ambo, Ebns- 

 well, and Kilvmgthorp." ToiTe MSS. 



^ " 1588-9, March, thrashing 18 thrave of whette and rie, the strove whereof 

 ■was reserved for the thachinge of the tyth barne of Blacrode, \7d. 1591-2, March, 

 w^^ndinge of seventine sieffes and a halfe of oattes at the tj^the barne at Hooll, 20d. 

 1592, Oct. Sir Eychard Sherburne, balyife, for rente of the tythe barne at Hool, 5s. 

 1598, for the frame of the tythe barne, Ql. 13s. id." — Shuttleworth Accounts. The 

 editor of that most valuable and most interesting work says, that the oxgang therein 

 named under the year 1593, consisted of thirteen acres. At Over Dinsdale in York- 

 shire, 23 acres went to the oxgang. The reader is referred to the note on page 127. 

 As an additional instance of the difficulty of fixing the exact quantity of ancient 

 measurements, John Best of Elmswell bought in 1657, for HI. three arable lands in 

 Garton, containing /o?<r acres; his grandson Francis Best of Beverley sold the same 

 pieces of land in 1773, for 105/., they then containing s('a; acres and ^/iree roods. 

 May not this be called " good grouring land ?" 



<^ The following entries from T. Whittingham's Diary show that the nature of 

 Buch documents was pretty uniform : 



