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.

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    I i grassmen's accounts. 43 Kent for dressinge the maden castell & mendinge the hedge about yt, xij^^. For the bull bought at darnton & for my charges and my horse, xls. For a fother of hay to bull & charges to the waynmen & gettinge in of yt, xxs. injd. For wrytinge this our account, ijs. To George cragg counstable for a sesment, xxd. For the Fogg in brode close & Anthoney duccotts close, xxxjs. For the Fogg in pellowleise, xxviijV. iiijW. For the sute of humphray garrie, iiij^^. More then the fogg cam to in brod close, xv'ijd. {Other entries, as usual, for upholding the moor dike, making up gaps in dikes, mending gates, ] Expences x/. vs. I'njd. The hole some declara dew to the parishe, xxxixj, ijd. that at the Receyt of this account the two coun- staples xp'ofer sympson Tanner & lohn harryson fuller have Receyved these parsells followinge thre lynyngs of stell capes edged with Reed ij sortts girdles {swordgirdles) iij daggers & ij swords thre pickes & thre full common Armore & thre head peaces j old pece. i6 May, 1613. Grasse men for 1613, George Tayler Tanner & lohn Claxton. Resaved of the oulde grasse men the xvjth (j^y of may, xxxixj. \]d. Item Rec^ of the hole parishe everie cowe \]d. for bull hay, xiijj. v'^d. For the fogg of brode close everie cowe v]d. ob. to y^ number of Iv gaits the hole ys xxxs. For the fogg of pellowlease everie cowe vj^^. ob. Ivj gaits the hole ys xxxs. ijd. [As usual, for gaits on the commo7i, amounting to £2 2s. 8d.\ Some of the hole Receyts ys vij/. xvj-, v]d. Expences for this yere 1613. Item paid to wedow hodshon, m]s. To xp'ofor symson counstaple for A Sesment \\\]d. of the pound, iijj. m]d. To Rychard skirfeild for a fother of hay to the bull, xvj>. For the carrage home of yt, xij^^. For gettinge of yt in to ye house, iiij^^. To george browne for settinge y^ yeat in brode close, vj^^. To william Kent for Reparinge y« mayden castell, xv]d. To dame Wilbie for thre stoupes & thre Railes set at the baccos layn,i v\d. To xp'ofor ' Bakehouse-lane (still so called) was the Western boundary of the parish on the North side of the street. See above, p. 18, note 1. The railing of various lanes at this time—C/. above, Railed in Fellowlease chare, and at the layne ende —may possibly have been with the view of letting such lanes as were grassy for pasture, as we find done in subsequent years.