Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmswell, in the East Riding of the County of York |
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13th March acres afore allmost allsoe allwayes annum barley barres beginne beinge belonginge betwixt bushell Carre carucate close cutte dayes dayworkes doe wee Durham Elmswell ewes eyther farme hath farre fatte flatte fleece fother Fower oxegange gette godspenny grasse cockes grownde halfe haver Henry Best hive hoame hogges howse James Best John John Best John Pearson June lambes landes layd lette letten Little Driffield loades makinge Malton markett morninge mowe mowers neaver Newcastle-on-Tyne oates oftentimes olde oxgang pasture payd pease peece perhapps place wheare plough pownde quarter rake runne score seaven servants sette shearers shearinge sheaves shee sheepe shepheard soe soone Spellowe stacke stooke strawe tenne Thomas three or fower togeather toppe Towthorp tuppes tythe tythe-free University of Durham usually waine weare weather wee putte wette whearefore wheate whoe William winter corne woll wooll yard yett
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Page 165 - Palatine of Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans ; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Frith of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria.
Page 165 - ... meeting. VII. — Three meetings of the Council shall be held in every year, on the first Tuesday in the months of March, June, and December; and the place and hour of meeting shall be fixed by the Council, and communicated by the Secretary to the members of the Council. VIII. — The...
Page 165 - Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, and the Treasurers, shall form the Council, any five of whom, including the Secretary and a Treasurer, shall be a quorum competent to transact the business of the Society. V. — The twenty-four...
Page 75 - ... brought in platters, and every one a spoone ; then after all they have hotte cakes and ale ; for they bake cakes and send for ale against that time : some will cutte theire cake and putte into the...
Page 79 - His tenants the graingers are tyed to come themselves, and winde the woll ; they have a fatte weather and a fatte lambe killed, and a dinner provided for their paines ; there will be usually three score or fower score poore folkes gatheringe up the lockes ; to oversee whom standeth the steward and two or three of his friends or servants, with each of them a rodde in his hande ; there...
Page 165 - ... members. II. There shall be a Patron of the Society, and the Right Reverend Edward Maltby, DD, FRS, Lord Bishop of Durham, shall be the first Patron. III. The Warden of the University of Durham for the time being shall be the President of the Society. IV. There shall be twenty-four Vice-Presidents, of whom four shall be such of the Professors, Tutors, or Fellows of the University of Durham as shall be members of the Society. There shall also be a Secretary and two Treasurers. V. The Patron, the...
Page 165 - Any vacancies in the offices of Secretary or Treasurers shall be provisionally filled up by the Council, subject to the approbation of the next general meeting. VII. Three meetings of the Council shall be held in every year, on the first Tuesday in the months of March, June, and December ; and the place and hour of meeting shall be fixed by the Council, and communicated by the Secretary to the members of the Council.
Page 82 - Wee seldome sende fewer then eight horse-loades to the markette att a time, and with them two men, for one man cannot guide the poakes of above fower horses.
Page 24 - Let the tup have his play." heades, balkes, and divisions that lye betwixt two faughes, for that is usually a battle, sweete, moist, and (as wee say) a naturall grasse, and doth the sheepe much good in ridinge time, and especially if it have beene sweetned and freshened with any showers of raine ; whearas most of the grasse that groweth on the landes, and especially on the leyes of the wolds, is a small...
Page 173 - Doncaster. 24th June, 1859. Rev. Sir FG Ouseley, Bart., MA, Precentor of Hereford, and Professor of Music in the University of Oxford, St. Michael's, Tenbury, Worcestershire. llth December, 1856.