By the Rev. J. E, Jackson. 81 



- s. d.. 



Item, for iij peny halters and ij halfpeny halters iiij. 



Item, for a hoggshed to kepe water x. 



, Item, for gresc for the pulleys j. 



Item, for ij lods of erthe to make the pyt to melte the leade. . . . viij. 



Item, for iiij lods of Sande to cast the lede xvj. 



Item, for ij lods of erthe to make the leade pyt in the Frater. .... viij. 



Item, for iiij lods of sande to caste the leade there ...... xvj\ 



Item, to Thomas Alen's servant mason to make the fumes wher 



the lede ashys were melten x, 



Item, for ij lb. of Gunpowder bought att Sarum to fyer the grett 



tymber peces of the Steple ij. viij, 



Item, for ij lb of Gunpowder bought at London ij 



Item, for an oxe hyde to make a pere of bellowes to melte the 



leade ashys. Mr. Alen hath they m vi. viij\ 



Item, for a lode of Charcole to melte the same ashys viij. 



Item, for a rope borrowyd of John Androes for the weyng of the 



leade viij* 



The sum total of the hole charge £xiiij. v«. iij d . (This included 

 the men's wages for several weeks.) 



Wherof Receaved for lede by him sold to diverse men iiij 11 . 

 xiij\ v d . : and so resteth more to the saide Nottingham ix u . xk ix d i 

 the whiche is allowed to him in the fote of his account for the 

 prouffitts of the demaynes and parsonage of Ambrosbury for oon 

 year and an half, ended at thannuntiation of O r . lady, A 0 , xxxiij 0 * 

 R. Henrici viij, and so even. 



No. 5. Thys porcion of my Lord's leede delyvered from Ambros- 

 bury to Hampton, by Aleyn's marke, the 1st day August A°* 

 R. Regis Henrici 8 vi . xxxiij 0 . 



Sowys of leede, 100, weighing 29 tons 18 cwt . 0 qrs . lS 1 ^ 1 



This was conveyed by carts hired from Douse and others of 

 Collingbourne, Wm. Nowis and others of TJrsaunt (Urchfont)^ 

 John Burden and Edmund Longe of Kaninge, J. Collet of Allyng- 

 ton, Ryng and Rowemans of Newton and Manningford, Maton 

 of Enforde, Thos. Hunt of Chesenbury, Alexander and Giles 

 Thystylthawrt of Winterslowe, R. Ocborne of Farley, Symon Cane 

 and others of Wynterbonrne, Thos. Byggs, Isabel Fostarde 



1 The " Sows" of lead were not all of one and the same weight. Dr. Johnson 

 says " An oblong mass of lead or unforged iron, or mass of metal melted from 

 the ore, is called, I know not why, sow metal, and pieces of that metal are called 

 pigs." 



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