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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    hands george storie chutbart martyn beinge constaples for the byinge of certayne furnyture beloinge to this parishe,^ yjs. li^d. Item payd for wrytinge of this booke, viij<3?. [The accounts for the years that here intervene do not appear\. The new gras men for this yere of our Lord 1590 lohn peirson & george cragg & they resaved in money declara at ther entrance Item Resaved of Frauncis browne fisher, iiijj. Item resaved of Anthoney trolope, ijj. viij^^. Item Resaved of wiUiam mowbray iiijj. Item Resaved of george tompson Laborer, viij^^. Item Resaved of peter nycholl for a horse, iiijj. 1591 {Inserted here). [Thomas hewitson is maid free by the right of his father in law lohn gaskin for so many gaites of cattell as his said father in law haith paid for in that tyme (?) he was inhabitant within this parish of gilles and for no more the hole stent is vj . . . head and the foresaid lohn haith paid but for iiij^r. Resaved of Frauncis browne fisher for a horse, i}s. Resaved of Anthonye trolope for 2 kie, 2S. Resaved of William mowbray for a horse 4-$. Resaved of georg tompson laborer for a koow is. Resaved of peter nicholl for a horse 4^.] Expences laid furthe this present yere 1590. Item paid to george tompson thomas prentisse lohn thorpe Thomas thompson for skowringe of gilsbrige letche & the lower car & the springes that comes to yt3 vjd. a day, some i}s. Item paid more to thomas whitton Xp'ofer tompson thomas prentisse william mowbray for suche lyke, ■ Meanine probably the common armour which parishes were required to have ready for use with a view to military service. C/. Pittmgton Churchwardens' Accounts, Surtees Society's Publications, vol. Ixxx.y, p. 85. ft S be seen below that such armour had to be inspected by the justices from time to time in various appointed places. See Index (Arnwur) and the Stion of the Lord Lieutenant in 1594, given below, from which it appears that the parish was responsible for the equipment of three soldiers. ' The Grassmen's receipts, as well as expenses, begin now to be entered yearly. They were derived principally from stents, t.e., Im^nts for the privilege of pasturing cattle on the common. For the rjiem of such stents, and oF rights of common generally, see Preface, p. I. 3 Cf. above, p. n, note 2.