THOMAS KYTSON AND WILTSHIRE CLOTHMEN, 1529 -1539 53 
upon any such Proof to be made by any Buyer of 
them at the Water, there shall be found less .. . 
Length than is contained and specified in every of 
their said Seals, then every... Clothier .. . shall lose 
the double 
Value of so much Cloth as shall want... in Length.*” 
and forfeit unto every such Buyer... 
Lambe was therefore confident that Joan’s whites 
would comply with the recent Statute. 
It appears that each clothman normally took his 
own whites to London in order to make his bargain 
with Thomas Kytson, but in addition to the above 
case of Aldhelm Lambe helping the widow Bathe in 
autumn 1538 there are a few entries where the 
clothmen used other men to carry their cloths. 
4 March 1536 Thomas Bayley the elder by the 
hands of his servant William Wylkyns 
13 Oct 1536 John Bennett of Warminster by the 
hands of Robert Stokes 
27 April 1537. John Smeth of Devizes by the hand 
of T Clevelode 
24 May 1538 William Allen by the hands of 
William Ysse 
6 June 1538 William Adlam by the hands of 
Robert Adlam the younger 
24 Oct 1538 Richard Adams of Laycock by the 
carrier William Lerde 
15 Nov 1538 Alexander Longford the elder by 
the hands of John Nashe carrier 
22 May 1539 the wife of Richard Bathe by the 
hands of Aldhelm Lambe 
10 June 1539 ~—s the wife of Richard Bathe by her 
carrier 
2 June 1539 Aldhelm Lambe by John Barle 
6 June 1539 Aldhelm Lambe by Ryse Peyett 
6 June 1539 Aldhelm Lambe by Thomas Grove 
In the early years of the ‘Boke’ a record was kept 
of the costs of shipping the wares to and from the 
fairs. These records are all lightly crossed out, not 
because they were wrong, but probably as though 
they were re-entered in another book, now lost.* 
The following record illustrates the varied costs 
involved in getting the fardells of cloth on to the 
ships, and other ancillary costs: 
Costes of clothes shipped to the Cold Mart holden in 
Barrowe A° 1531 
pd for byndyng of 11 fardells at 9d the fardell 8s 3d 
pd for carying to the watter syde of 7 fardells at 6d the 
fardell. Sum 3s 6d 
pd for carying to the wattersyde of 4 fardells and to the 
cartars for watching for them, at9d the fardell 3s 3d 
pd for cokkettes 16d 
pd and geven to the maryners of Birkilsay for taykyng 
in of a fardell when yt was lyckly to rayne 2d 
pd and Geven to the Sarchers 4s 
pd for portrage, cranage and lyghtrage of 11 fardells 
and a trusse lls 
pd and geven to the lyghtermen for rowyng a gaynst 
the streme at nyght with a fardell and for taykyng 
uppe of yt at the key 6d 
pd for caying of a empty pype to the Ayle brewars 1d 
pd for my boott hire for this shipping 7d 
pd for my boot hire for shipping 3 hogges heddes of 
bere in Richard Harwood 2d 
pd for carying to the watter syde of a pipe with ayle 
4d 
pd for carying to the watter syde of a chist, 2 
ferckynges with brawne and a hampper 4d 
pd for portrage and cranage of the pipe with ayle and 
the chist 4d 
pd for my boott for shipping of the ayle Yd 
pd for my boyett for shippynge of the hampper with 
venyson in Perys Smeth of Flusshing 2d 
pd for a lydd for the sand boxe ld 
Total sum of all the costes 34s 242d 
pd & quite 
Not only are there payments for the expected 
costs of binding up the fardells, the porterage, 
cranage and lighterage charges, and the ‘cokkett’ or 
sealed export permit obtained from the Customs 
House, but also incidental expenses paid to the 
porters for watching over four fardells while they 
were at the waterside, and a gratuity given to the 
mariners for saving a fardell from getting wet when 
it was likely to rain. The fardells were taken to the 
quay at Barrow by lighter, and rowed against the 
stream. The incidental costs of carrying a chest, two 
ferkins of brawn, a hamper of venison, three 
hogsheads of beer and a pipe of ale were also 
included in the costs. The references to Richard 
Harwood and Perys Smeth refer to the ships of 
these two masters. From elsewhere in the ‘Boke’ it 
becomes evident that Harwood’s ship was the John 
Baptist of London, and that Smeth’s unnamed 
vessel was not used for carrying the fardells of cloth 
to any of the marts even though it was used on this 
occasion for carrying provisions. Other costs 
sustained by Kytson included making sure that 
cloths were in good condition before they were 
shipped to the fairs. For this he employed the 
services of two London shearmen, Harry James and 
Matthew Sharpe. One entry reads, ‘delyvered to 
Herry James shereman to wasshe & drye a whitte of 
