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1634. April 13. Lent to my brother Paull to Yorke, Blundivell for 

 the use of the spheare, and Lucan's solace. — Oct. 12. Agreed with John 

 Arlush of Beverley to make and burne me fower hundi'eth thousand 

 of bricke, well and sufficiently ; and I am to pay him for digginge, 

 turninge, and makinge, burninge, the sayd bricke, after the rate of 3s. 

 8d. the thousand ; I gave him 12c?. for a godspenny.* 



1635. A Paeticulak of the Rents of Kellitheopp. — Inprimis 

 these belong to Alice Edwards part as foUoweth : — Her sheepe ground 

 and tillage, 281. per annum; Awme close, 12?.; Thurley close, 14?.; 

 these are in Mrs Hardy's hand. Langhill at 18?. ; Newe Inge at 12?. ; 

 these are in Edward Marshall's hand. The Upper close and Nether 

 close, 20?. ; Eichard Harrison. Pownsworth close, 4?. ; Somme, 96?. 

 Her Becke close at Little Driffeylde, 3?. 6s. 8d. ; Sheepe garth close at 

 2?. 6s. 8<^. ; William Hewson for his howse and close, 1?. 10s. ; Rye 

 close, 1?. 4. ; her halfe of Robert Simpson's howse, 15s. ; Lambe howse 

 and Kell howse, . . ?. ; halfe an oxgange of land in Greate Driffeylde, 

 1?. ; six oxgange of land in Ems well feyld and one close, 16?. ; her 

 halfe of "William Pinder farme, 4?. 



1636. Mrs Salvyns part of Kellithrope, some of which is letten to 

 tenants, anno 1636, according to her owne he. as followeth : — The 

 Brenks to Thomas Botterill and others at 12?. per annum; Inge close 

 to James Gray and others at 14?. ; Clubb close to John Simpson and 

 others at 51. ; Orchard and Lord's garth to Anthony Thompson and 

 others, 4?. ; the Sommer Cowe close to Richard Pearson and William 

 Wilkinson at 10?. ; the Lough close, the sheep grownd, and the Cowe 

 pasture, she hath in her owne hand, 45?. ; Somme 90?. 



1639. Payd per a wastcoate cloth, 4s. 9d., and by a yeard of hemp 

 cloth, lOd. 



1640. William Tadman, the shepherd, to have 5?. per annum, lOd. 

 godspenny, and 20 sheep wintered, and hee is to table himselfe. — March 

 30. The rate, as it was assessed upon these severall townes in Baynton 

 Beacon, towards the buylding 2 shippes of 480 tunn a peece, viz. : — 

 Driffeylds Ambo, 22?. 10s. ; Middleton, 12?. ; North Dalton, 12? 

 Southburne, 3?. 6s. 8d. ; Kirkburne, 4?. ; Eastburne, 3?. 6s. 8d. ; Sun- 

 derlandwick, 2?. 10s.; Beswick, 4?. 10s.; Huton Cranswicke, 17?. 7s. 

 Baynton, 13?. Surama, 94?. 10s. 4f?. — Nesswick, 51. 10s.; Watton 

 19?.; Bracken, 4?. Skerne, 11?.; Lund, 13?.; Warter, 12?. 10s. 

 Tibthrop, 7?. 8s. 3^.; Emswell, 6?. 10s.; Rotsey, 51.; Holme, 5?. 

 Lockington, 13?. 10s.; Kiln wick, 8?.; Scorbrough, 6?.; Summa, 116?. 

 8s. 3d. Summa totalis, 210?. 18s. 7d. 



1640, June the 1st. Given out to be Washed. — One lynen table 

 cloth and one dyaper one, one payre of fyne lynen sheetes and one 



Mayor of Hull, and had Hugh, a merchant of HuU, who by his wife Anne, daughter 

 of Anthony Lambert, had William, Vicar of the Holy Trinity, the father of the 

 celebrated poet and friend of Gray. 



=» This amounts to no less a sum than [73^. 6s. 8<?.] ; I add a few notices of the 

 price of bricks. 1684, May 1. Armin, a kiUne of burnt brick 15^. 10s. 1688, Sept. 

 4. Snaith for 8 loads of bricks leading for my Lord Downe 4s. 1717-8, Feb. 26. 

 Snaith, 30,000 of bricks 10^. 1719-20, March 10, Rawcliffe, 377 Holland tiles 12j. 

 1637-8, Feb, 5, Goole. A hundred of brick 16d. 



