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was there, 6d., and 2d. payd for him ; lent him when he payd for his 

 saddle, 5s. ; lent him at Mr Stowe's, Is., and my wife lent him 2s. 9d. 

 — May 2. For 2 purges at York, 3s. 9d. ; a pair of knives. Is. ; showes 

 and strings, 3s. id. ; for showes twise mending, 6d. ; for your iiagg, 

 20s. — May 4. Remained to me of this reckoning, computatis compu- 

 tandis, 9/. 12s. lOd. — Eeceived of Mr Thomas Silvester by 3 horees 

 meate at Caltam for five weekes, being theyr at lOd. per weeke, 

 12s. 6d. — April 19. Payd to my ixncle Henry Best, by thirty wethers 

 I sent to him by William Markes, the somme of 15^. — Nov. 16. Payd 

 in money 35^., which I delivered to Mark Bradley, by my uncle 

 Hemy Best his appointment, which, with the sheepe, is in all 501., 

 which is in part of his yearly rent. 



1625-6, March 20, Payd to my uncle Henry Best, at his chamber at 

 Mr Tyremans," 14/. ; and payde for him more to Mr Thomas Atkinson 

 the attorney at the same tyme, 16/. ; which is in all 30/. Payd 

 to Mr Arthur Pepper of Yorke, by the appoyntment of my uncle 

 Mr Henry Best, for the debt of my cosen Thomas Best 1/. 17s. 6d.^ 

 ^1626, April 8, Thomas Everingham of Beale, co. York, yeoman, 

 owes to Hemy Best of Eknswell, gent., 3/. 10s. ; to be paid at the house 

 of Thwaites Poxe of Beverley. Witness, Jane Lawrance. — May 16. 

 Eichard Kirby and Matthewe Moriden of Kellithorpe owe to Henry 

 Best of ElmsweU, gent., 40s. 



1627, Robert Gibson to have 3/. wages, and an old hatt, or els 3s. 

 in money, whether he will ; and the worth of 3s more in somewhat 

 els. — Oct. 8, Paid to Michael Hardy of Southburne for Christopher 

 Baxter, 40s. ; and to my cozen James Best of Hull for Christopher 

 Baxter, 41. ; and to John Graberne of Beverley in fuU for the abovesd 

 Christopher Baxter, 4/. ; which was in full for his last halfs yeares 

 annuyty, due at Michaelmas last past [the earliest payment is dated 

 Oct. 9, 1624, the latest April 4, 1631].— Reckoned with my brother 

 Paull this 26 of November, 1627, and aU. reckonings sett straight be- 

 twixt us, he oweth mee yett 10s., more hee hath had at several! times 



* Two of the receipts for the fee-farm rent, dated April 11, 1611, and Nov. 10, 

 1613, are for money received " by the hands of Mychaell Tyreman, gent." Notices 

 of a respectable famiiy of that name occur in the Parish Eegisters of Chiist Church 

 and Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York ; and in that of St. Michael le Belfrey are the 

 following, " Buried 1631, Sept. 20. Mr. Charles Hincks, a stranger, who dyed at 

 Mr. MychaeU Tyreman's. 1659, Sept. 26, a boy fi'om the Starr in Stonegate, 

 drowned and buried." 



In the Journal of Nicholas Assheton, published by the Cheetham Society, p. 130, 

 is this notice ; "I, Jos. Greenacres, and Walbank to York, the Starr. Mr. Tire- 

 man's." The Star yet exists; its ancient neighbour, the White Swan, in Petergate, 

 has, I believe, disappeared. 



b Thomas Best was baptised at St. Dunstans in the West, London, July 20, 1589. 

 His first wife, Martha, was buried there March 25, 1615. He married at Ripon 

 Minster Jan. 17, 1617-8, Olive, dau. of Sir JohnMallory of Studly Royal, Knt., and 

 was Member of Parhament for Ripon in 1625. His son and heir George was bap- 

 tised at Wath Dec. 11, 1608, and buried there Jan. 30, 1638-9. A deed of 1601 

 mentions Henry Best's dwelling house "situate and being nere Temple Bar, in Fleet 

 Street, in the parish of St. Dunstone's in the West, in the subiirbes of the cittie of 

 London." 



