The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster, at Smithils and Gawthorpe: From September 1582 to October 1621, Volume 43Chetham society, 1857 - England |
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Accounts acres amongst ancient Anglo-Saxon April August barrels Bolton brought Burnley butter called cattle century cheese Cheshire Chester church cinnamon Clitheroe cloth cloves colour constable coriander corn cotton court-leet Deane church December dish ditto divers doublets Edward Edward IV eels Elizabeth England English entries fallow deer February fennel fifteenth fish flax flowers four French fruit fustian gald garden Gawthorpe Gawthorpe Hall ginger gloves haircloth half Hapton hath hawks hemp Henry VIII herbs honey Hoole horses Index iron January July June kind lace lamb Lancashire land linen liquorice London lord Manchester manufacture March master meat milk November October Padiham paid pair parish plant Pomet powder recipes reign salt says seed September silk Sir Richard Shuttleworth Smithills Smithills Hall sold sorts spices stone sugar tenants thereof township tree unto various Whalley Abbey wine wool woollen yards
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Page 633 - I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 578 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 580 - He was of a middle stature, more corpulent through his clothes than in his body, yet fat enough, his clothes ever being made large and easy, the doublets quilted for stiletto proof, his breeches in great plaits and full stuffed ; he was naturally of a timorous disposition, which was the reason of his quilted doublets...
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Page 717 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 575 - With us the nobility, gentry, and students do ordinarily go to dinner at eleven before noon, and to supper at five, or between five and six at afternoon. The merchants dine and sup seldom before twelve at noon and six at night, especially in London. The husbandmen dine also .'I high noon, as they call it, and sup at seven or eight : but out of term in our universities the scholars dine at ten.
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Page 565 - This sword a dagger had, his page, That was but little for his age, And therefore waited on him so As dwarfs upon knights-errant do : It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging : When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon ; though it were To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care...
Page 517 - ... to the great admiration of all the beholders ; but then by little and little they grew usual among the nobility and others of sort, and within twenty years...
Page 651 - John de la Hay took of William Barnaby, lord of Lastres, in the county of Hereford, one parcel of the land of that demesne, rendering twenty-pence a year, and one goose fit for the lord's dinner on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, with suit of court and other services.