Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene.

  • St. Giles (Parish : Durham, England)
Date:
1896
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Credit: Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    mendinge of the yates of the more at two severall tymes, vij^^. Item payde to wiUiam pavie for mendinge of william Coningam dycke of the more, i]d. Item payde to Thomas yonge for mendinge of wilHam weathearell and James hodgson dycke of the more, uijd. Item payde for kepinge of this booke, Yiijcl. Item payd for a byll maykinge of a bill to the Constaples The somme of the expences is xj>. vijW. [JVo accoimts are found for 75^5] • Expences for this present yere 1586 beinge gyrsmen Thomas marshall Edward Symson. Item payd for the poore mens dycke that dwell att the panti vd. Item payd to lohn thorpe for mendinge of the hie wayes in the streat at the comman punfouuld, vd. Item payd to Anthonye cooke for certayne wood to mend the yate of the more xvj<^. Item payd to william homble for mendinge of the sayde yate of the more, v\\]d. Item payd to lohn thorpe for mendinge of the dycke of the more, vd. Item payd to Rychard Robinson for suche lyke, vd. Item payd to peter gelson for mendinge of the style of the common Rydge of ellesleyes,^ ij^. Item payd to Thomas browne for his two horse for cariinge a prysoner to darton {Darlington ?) ij>. iiij^^. Item payd to the castinge of the bell of this our money, xxxxs.3 Item payd to lohn thorpe for mendinge of the carr of the more, vd. Item payd to peter gelson for mendinge of the dycke of Ellesleyes, iijd. Item payde to lohn thorpe for mendinge wedowe taylor dycke of the more, ijd. Item payd to Thomas yonge for mendinge of lohn Atkinson dycke of the more and for wedowe Wilkenson dycke, vd. Item payd to the ' The pant (meaning a conduit for water) is often mentioned. There appear to have been two; for see below, A.D. 1594, bannds, &c., for the dowre of the lower pant. One of the 'fields on the South side of the street of Gilligate, a little above Causey foot, is marked on old plans as Pant Close, opposite to which on the North side of the street was, till comparatively recent years, a common well, resorted to by the inhabitants for water. In this locality may have been the lower pant. The other may be supposed to have been on the Moor itself. Cf. below (a.d. 1591), porcions of the moire dicke belonginge to some poore about the pant. Also (1593) the same. ^ Ellesleases (still so called) was the tract of land descending towards the river on the North side of the street. The Common rydge (rigg?) might be a portion of the land there subject to rights of commonage. 3 The bell thus subscribed to from the Grassmen's Fund may have been subsequently recast ; for of the three bells now existing, the only one which is not of pre-Reformation date bears the inscription, Soli Deo Gloria, 1640, A.E., R.T., R.c, T.D., being thus shown to have been cast subsequently to this year.