224. 



Longleat Papers, No. 5. 



Sente Sir Geo. SI Poll by his manne Alexander Hay ward for a 

 coatche horse he sent my La. to Sheffield £20 : and to the same 

 man for his paines in bringinge the horse £1. 

 P d . for mending the coatehe at Sheffield 10/. 

 Alsoe for the harnes 2/6. 



Giv n in reward to a man of Mrs. Digbie's* brought my La. certen 



preserves to Sheffield 2/6. 

 Given the gardiner at Sheffield for certen nosegaies he gave my 

 La. there. 5/. 



And to a woman way ted on the gentelwy men's chamber there 5/. 

 To the Piper ther 5/. 



To a poore woman gave my La. a petition in hir coatche the daye 



shee came thence to Roughford [Rufford] 10/0. 

 Alsoe to a man brought and del d . my La : a pair of small sheeres 

 the same time in her coatche 5/." 



RUFFORD. 



[Two miles south of Ollerton, Co. Notts. This Abbey had been 

 granted to George, Earl of Shrewsbury, and passed by marriage 

 of Mary Talbot to Sir George Savile.] 



" Given among certen poore at Edelstoe f as my Lady came with 

 my La : of Shrewsbury to Roughford 5/0. 

 Sept. 26. Given amongst M ls . Markham's servants at Roughford the night 

 my La : lay there 5. 0. 0. 

 28. Given a man of Sir Richard Harpur's % brought my La. a letter 

 and certen wrytings in a boxe to Wingfield 10/0. 



WlNFlELD. 



[South Winfield : eleven miles from Chesterfield, on the road to 

 Derby. The manor-house, built in the reign of Henry VI., by 

 Ralph, Lord Cromwell, became about A.D. 1330 the property of 

 the Earls of Shrewsbury, by six of whom it was occupied in 

 succession. During the time of George, the sixth earl, it was 

 occasionally the residence of Mary, Queen of Scots. (See Blore's 

 History of Winfield. )~\ 

 " Sept. 28. To the Kytchen amongst the Cooks 3. 6. 8. The Wardrobe 1. 0. 0. 



the pantler and butler 1. 0. 0., 2 ushers in the hall 1. 0. 0. the 



yeomen of the cellar 10/., 2 gromes of the grete chamber 1. 0. 0. 



2 wayted on my La : chamber 1. 0. 0., the porter 10/. grooms of 



the stable 1. 0. 0." 



* Mrs. Digby : probably of Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts. 



■f The steward meant Edwinstow, between Worksop and Rufford ; then occupied by George 

 Markham, Esq , father of Sir Thomas Markham, an officer in the Civil Wars of Charles I. 



t Sir Richard Harpur. One of the Justices of Common rieas. Of Finderne, in Mickle Over 

 near Derby: whose monument (1635) is in the chapel of Little Over. 



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