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

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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$paid to lohn thorpe for mendinge of certayn porcions of dicke belonginge to some poor about the pant, y}d. Item more to lohn thorpe for mendinge the yeate on the more, ij^. Item paid for mendinge a band of the dore at the pant, ijd. Item paid for latt brodes bought at darnton for M'' heaith bawcus,^ x^^. Item paid to thomas tompson for castinge of the car iij dayes & a halfe, xx^d. Item paid to lohn thorpe for such lyke, xxjd. Item paid to Rychard Robinson for two dayes, xi^d. Item paid to thomas whitton for two dayes, xij^^. Item paid to thomas Grame for one day, vjd. Item paid for a gallan of ale to the workmen, iiij^. Item paid to thomas whitton for makinge the hedge upon the ellessless, iiij^^. paid more to the said thomas for thornes to the same, iiij^^. Item paid to lohn thorp for makinge certayn places at the lower car for the cattell to dringe {drink), v]d. Item paid to thomas Mitchall for the building of Rychard morlan bawcus,^ xijj. Item paid to Robt. hudspeth for wryting our account & the booke kepinge, xA]d. Some of the expences xxijj. viij<^. ' Mr. Heath's bakehouse ; i.e., that of the lord of the manor, at which the tenants were required to bake their bread, as well as grind their corn at his mill. Cf. Copy of Court Roll, a.d. 1600 (given below in this volume), m which Mergaret Smithe, tenant of a burgage in Gilligate, is bound molere eranam suam ad molendinum domini, et pinsere panem suum ad Communem pistrinam domini. In a suit instituted in the year 1726 by John Tempest, then lord of the manor, against certain inhabitants for alleged trespass on the common and other infringements of his manorial rights, he asserted the obligation of freeholders as well as copyholders of the borough to use his bakehouse only, even to the exclusion of their right to bake their bread in their own houses. See below, p. 39- It ^soyAA. seem from the entry before us that the parishioners had to keep the lord s bakehouse in repair, as well as resort to it. In the Manor Court Book is found as- follows :— 11 Oct nth Car. I. Pain—That all who bake white bread within the parish shkll bring it into the bakehouse between 6 & 7 the forenoon & their household bread between 10 & 11 upon pain of 35. 4^. each offender. The lord's bakehouse may be supposed to have been where a bakehouse existed till within living memory, viz., the last house on the North side of the street, where a lane, still called Bakehouse Lane, bounds the parish on the West; the adjoining land being also designated as Bakehouse Leazes ; as in the following extract from the Manor Court Book 3 Nov., II Car. I.:- Pain-That none shall misuse the Bake-house- Well or Bake-house-Leazes-Well upon pain of every one so offending-65. 8rf. » This appears to have been a new bakehouse, distinct from Mr Heath's manorial one, which has been already mentioned. It may be ShI't such inhabitants as were not bound by their copyhold tenures to use he lord's bakehouse only were now resolved to have one of their own, at which t^ev could ba^e on their own terms. We find subsequently in 16,0 (p. 39) a specified rate of charges not to be exceeded by the backhouse-man.$