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To Mr. Tuke for a sermon he made at Sheffield, by my Ladies 



comand 2. 0. 0 

 To Sir Charles Cavendish's musition 1. 0. 0. 



Given among some poor wymen, my lady hunting a stag in Hans- 

 worth park * 1/. 



To a poore woman bringing my Lady a dish of wardens [i.e., warden 



pears] from Sheffield 2/. 

 To another bringing plums 10/. 

 Sept. 8. To my La. Pembroke's f bow-bearer 1. 0. 0." 



Bawtry. 



" Sept. 9. Among certen poore at Beautrye [Bawtry] that daie my Lady 

 dranke at Mr. Richardson's going into Lincolnshire 4/." 



Stockwith. 



[Here she reached the River Trent and the county of Lincoln.] 



" To 3 men that mended the ways for the coach short of Stockwith 

 half a mile 2/6." 



Melwood Park. 



[This is a little south of Epworth in the district known as the Isle 

 of Axholme, which in 1609, the year of this Progress, was a 

 large tract of level and nearly black soil undrained, and therefore 

 little better than a bog or swamp. It contained, however, woods 

 and islands of drier ground, which afforded fine hunting of the 

 deer, partly in boats and partly on terra fir ma. In Leland's time 

 (c. 1 540) Lord Mowbray, of Axholme, was chief owner of Melwood 

 and of the rest of the Isle. There was also at Melwood a dissolved 

 monastery of Carthusians, which had been granted by Henry VIII. 

 to Mr. John Candish (i.e.. Cavendish), who had turned it into a 

 goodly manor house. As the account book does not mention 

 gratuities " at Melwood/'' but only " at Sir George St. Paul's," 

 it would seem that Sir George, and no Cavendish, was her host at 

 Melwood. He was also of a Lincolnshire family, whose own place 

 was at Snarford, near Market Raisin. According to Hunter's South 

 Yorkshire, vol. ii., 147, 153, "Melwood Park, in the time of 

 James I , belonged to the Stanhopes of Grimston, Co. York."] 



* Hansworth : a house built by the Earl of Shrewsbury, on the edge of Sheffield Park. 

 + Lady Pembroke. This was Mary Talbot, another daughter of Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrews- 

 bury, wife of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and sister of the Lady Arundell, mentioned above. 



