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1544. September. Levies upon the town of Uttoxeter, 6081. 

 13s. 2d. 



1645. January 1st. The parishioners of Uttoxeter paid 61.2s. 4d. 

 weekly, besides extraordinary expences to a considerable amount. 



. Paid to Prince Rupert's cook for his fee, 5s. 



. August 4th. Hay, oats, beer, tobacco, wood, and coals, 



for the guard three nights, when the Parliament forces went against 

 Tutbury Castle, 11. 19s. Sd. 



. For guides to go a scouting three nights, 9s. 



. October. For a sheet, making the grave, ringing, beer, 



and for burying the soldier that was slain in the street, 4s. 



1646. February 5th. The Constable's accounts amounted to 

 9751. 7s. Id. 



. October 6th. Paid to two men for blocking up the town 



ends with carts, sixpence. 



. Beer for soldiers for barricading the town ends, Is. 



. February 8th. Paid Commissary Ward three weeks* 



contribution, 141. 13s. 8d. 



. Paid General Egerton at Tutbury, 301. 



. February 22d. For carrying two soldiers to Caverswall, 



who were maimed in the High Wood beyond Uttoxeter, 2s. 6d. 



On the 15th of February, 1646, a sharp encounter betwixt a 

 party of the King's troops from Tutbury Castle, and a party of the 

 Parliament's from Burton-house, in Derbyshire." Wharton's 

 Gesta Britannica. 



. February 14th. For two horses and a man to carry 

 bread and cheese toTutbury in the night, being in great want, 3s. 4d. 



. February 22d. Paid to parson Langley's soldiers in 



bread and beer, 3s. 



. March 30th. For provisions to the leaguers (or Parlia- 

 ment forces), at Tutbury, 71. 4s. 6d. 

 . April 8th. Ditto, 111. 2s. 9d. 



Tutbury Castle was taken by Sir William Brereton, in 1646. 



. April 20th. Paid Captain John Cloyd for pulling down 

 the bulwarks at Tutbury, 31. 



1 . August 26th. Paid to Ashburn by the Churchwardens 



of Uttoxeter when the town was infested with the plague, 31. 



1 Paid to the inhabitants of Clifton when the plague was 



there, 51. 



. October. For quartering General Fairfax's soldiers, 20K 



