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score yewes, ISl. 6s. 8d. Item, the said Marmaduke 41. John Alex- 

 ander' for implements of householde stufe 51. 13s. 4:d. The said John 

 Alexander for rie and maulte 3^. 8s. The said John 33s. 4.d. that I 

 paid to Christofer Metcalfe for hym. Fore his halfe yere rent 16s. 

 The said John for 3 quarters and 2 bushell of maulte, 2s. 4td. the 

 bushell price, 3't he had the first yere he came to Myddilton to dwell, 

 some 31. 8s. The said John for 1 1 bushells of rie yt he had the same 

 yere 36s. 8d. Marmaduke Dickeson 'Si. Charles Cooke 36s. Sd. 

 Henry Phillipe 6s. 8d. One Bleads yt married Raulfe Phillipe 

 daughter for a secke of mault 8s. 6d. Christofer Bellamhie 20s. 4d. 

 James llicheson for 3 bushell of rie 3s. the bushell price, and one 

 bushell of maulte 2s. some lis. Richard Todde for sixe bushell of rie 

 16s. Henry Swyere 26s. 8f^. Erancis Herreson 5^. 19s. 6d. John 

 Gowwit 10s. Gefferray Gibbeson 24s. Mr. Marmaduke Stavelay 13s. 

 4d. Gilbart Daweson 20s. Richard Besf 10/. 8s. George Wallbrone 

 33s. 4d. John Theasceston 37s. 4d. Wylliam Heslinton 9s. 4d. 

 Richarde Swetinge 10s. Hughe Allen 26s. 8d. One lease taken of 

 Thomas Herreson 40s. One taken of James Meke 40s. One lease 

 taken of Elizabeth White 51. 16s. Somma totalis 279/. 4s. 



Desperait debts yt is owen to the foresaid testatore. Thomas 

 Sweliiig 6/. 2s. Christofer Daill 20s. Edward Gibbeson for 2 wayne 

 loides of plue geare and wayne geare. 



Debts which the said testatore did owe at the houre of his death. 

 His whole yeares rent 50s. Servantes wages 23s. 6d. 



April 6, 1617. Jajies Best of Empswell, in the countie of Torke, 

 GENTLEJiAiv — to be buried in the church5\ard of Little Driffield betwixt 

 my two" wives if it may be. Grace my wife and her raayde to have theire 

 dyet in such sorte with my sonne Paull as they used to have when I was 

 lyveinge, and the freledge of the gardens. To my son Henrie 100/. be- 

 sides the 100/. and odd pounds he hath had alreadye. To my sonnes 

 Charles, John, James, and Robert, my two daughters Anne and Sara 



a John Alexander married at "Wath, Oct. 3, 1575, Anna Best, and was buried 

 April 13, 1599, leaving issue by his wife, who was buried March 11, 1610-1. A 

 John Alexander was buried Jan. 14, 1573-4. A second, July 5, 1579. James 

 Alexander, of Melmerbie, baptized his dau. Ann Aug 16, 1612, (bur. Feb. 3, 

 1614-5 :) Julian Apr. 2, 1615 ; and was bur. Apr. 1. 1632. 



^ " Richard Best and Anne Best mar. Sept. 4, 1576. Richard Best and Ann 

 Sootson mar, Nov. 16, 1586. Richard Beste bur. Aug, 27, 1605. Richard Best of 

 Jlydelton feld, bur. Dec. 6, 1610." One of these would be the debtor mentioned 

 above. I take this opportunity of acknowledging the valuable assistance afforded by 

 my esteemed friend, the Rev. John Ward, rector of Wath, a member of the Surtees 

 Society, and an antiquary of unwearied industry and zeal. 



= The first wife was Dorothy, buried May 29, 1605. Her children were Paul, 

 Henry, Charles and John, of whom nothing is known; James bapt. Apr. 18, 

 1600, living 1618; Faythe bap. Jan. 14, 1601-2, bur. Sept. 17, 1602. The 

 second wife was Elizabeth, buried June 11, 1612. Her children were Ann bapt. 

 May 10, 1606, married July 1, 1623, Francis Smith of Pattrington; Sarai bapt. 

 May 6, 1610, married May 15, 1627, John Gray of Elmswell, and had issue; 

 Robert bapt. June 7, 1612. She was widow of Antony Trott of Weald, in the 

 parish of Han-ow-on-the-Hill, co. Middlesex, and mother of the minors above-named. 



