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Martyn Wise 4/. 10s.; and of my brother Lawrence for rent 31. — 

 March 12. Pease 6 bushells, 18s. — March 20. A peck of pease, 9d. — 

 April 11. Rye, a bushell, 3s. 6^^. ; barley, a bushell, 2s. Sd.'' — 

 June 1. Eeckoned with Symon Hewetson at the clippinge, and 

 he hath in his keepinge 8 score and 2 olde sheepe and 32 lambes : 

 payd to Ralph Specke as foUoweth; pd on Holly Thursday and 

 presently after 1621, 20^.; pd Nov. 15, 1621, 20^.; pd 10th of May, 

 1622, 30/. ; pd by 10 qr of barley 10/. ; pd the 29th of Septemb., 1623, 

 35/. ; pd the 22nd of Aprill, 1624, 23/. 10s.— Sum, 138/. 10s.— Sold 

 to Ralph Specke the 22nd of Aprill, 1624, forty ewes and lambes at 

 14/. and 2 oxen and a yonge steere at 9/. 10s., so that he oweth me 

 nowe, his wife's portion beinge discharged in full with the use, 30s., 

 his brother Robert being witnesse of the bargaine. Memorandum that 

 Ralph Specke wolde not give mee a generall discharge for his wife's 

 portion (allthough I had payed him it to the full, and 10/. per centum 

 for the forbearance, and 5/. to buy his wife apparell) till I forgave him 

 30s. more that he ought mee. — June 28. Malt a pecke, 9d. ; barley 3 

 peckes, Is. 6d. — July 11. Wheate a pecke, 13d. — July 13th. To sett of 

 Leonard Goodall's reckoninge, for 11 dayes worke for him selfe, and 6 

 dayes his wife, 5s. Id., a cheese sold to him I7d., and rye 2 peckes 

 2s. 6d.. — Rec. the 20th of July, of Henry Best of Elmswell, the some 

 of 3/., and more received by a cowe I hadde of him 21. 6s. 8d., which 

 is in all 51. 6s. 8d., in part of 71. 19s. due to me for 53 lambes, Francis 

 Hodgson. — Aug. 6. Rec. of Mr Henry Best the somme of 8/. for the 

 frame of a kiching at Burton, to the use of my brother Appleyard ; by 

 me, John Monckton. — Oct. 6. Mr Thomas Silvester oweth mee, hoppe 

 lib., 6d. ; layd out for him for two knives at Yorke, a shillinge; cut- 

 chyneale, ounce Is. ; at Beverley, tobacco, ounce, 6d. ; a hand vise 

 2s. ; London treacle, 2 drachmes, Is. — Lent to Mrs Ursula the last 

 Lady day at Drilfeylde-faire, 5s. — Oct. 10. Owing to mee for cut- 

 chyneale, Mr Duke Etherington quarter ounce, Leonard Barthorpp 

 quarter ounce. — Nov. 14. Reckoned with Symon Hewetson, and he 

 hath in his keepinge 7 score and 19 olde sheepe, and fourscore 

 and five lambes. — Sold this year in barley and delivered to Mr Toppin, 

 of Yorke, 25 quarters at 14s. 4d. per quarter; Mr. Toppin, 10 quarters 

 at 15s. per quarter, and more 4 quarters and a halfe ; Mr. Toppin, 12 

 quarters at 16s. per quarter; solde to Mr Symon Colton, of Yorke, 20 



30, 1639 ; bur. Apr. 6, 1640. It is singidar that Henry Best of Middleton Quern- 

 how seals with a saltire, and Henry Best of Elmswell also with a saltire, with a 

 hull's head on a chapeau for crest. 



James Best owed him 81. 13s., we learn above. A Richard Nevile is witness at 

 ElmsweU in 1598. 



a It may be thought that the larger gentry would not be such complete retail 

 dealers, but they were so, universally. In 1581 a man of HensaU owes "Henry 

 Aunby one half pecke of oatmeale, id. ; to Sir Eichard Staplton one mett of rye, 

 2s. id." — " 1631, May 31. Antony Barton saith that he came to Mr. Yarburgh at 

 Christenmasse, who gave him time for payment of ye 8s., and also did let him have 

 a secke of pease, which is to bee paide at Michaelmasse next, being in all II. 3s. 6d." 

 These were the heads of the Visitation families of Yarburgh of Snaith, Aunby of 

 Sherwood, and Stapleton of Carlton. 



