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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    patteson, vijj. viij^/. To the counstaples for givinge in ther Answere for certayn articles given them by the head counstaples, xd. To lohn hall one of ye survaers for the hye wayes, xvj-. To Rychard Tripp for a heaspe & a stapple to pellowleese chare & for mendinge of moores chare, Y]d. To the counstaples for the house of correction, ^d. For iiijor stone of hay to the bull, ixd. For a bull that we bought, xlvijj. [Other entries of the usual kind]. Expences ys ix/. 5^-. n]d. Declara, iiij/. xixj. ]d. Grasse men for 1618. George Tayler glover And Andrew Currey. Receyved iiij7. xixj. Rec'i for the bull that was sold, xlvjj. [Also for fog, bull hay, the lonyngs, and one horse gait]. The hole Receyts ys xj7. viijj-. vij^^. Expences 1618. To wedowe hodshon, vjj-. To lohn Tripp for his horse in y^ kinges affaires,^ V\\]d. For the articles, V\\]d. To Rob'te Kent for mendinge y^ mayden castell, viijW. For a fother of hay to the bull, xviijj. For a locke to the bull house, \\]d. For vewinge the common Armor on Raynton more, iijj. To the counstaples for A sesment for becones, yid. For dressinge of A sworde, viij^^. To Rychard Littlepher for oure comynge up to vew the harnes, \\\]d. To the counstaple Rob'te Carr for thre men that carried the harness to Raynton more the ij^^ tyme, iij^f. To Rob'te carr for the dressinge of the common Armore, v]d. For two sesments iiij^^. the pound, v]s. V\\]d. More to the counstaples for ij sesments \d. of y^ pound xx^f. For one dossen of hay to the bull to James foster, \]s. To George cragg for one dossen, \\s. vjW. To Nedd waller for dressinge y^ armore, v]d. To lohn burdus for one dossen of hay to y^ bull, \\s. vjd. For the bull that was bought at darnton, lis. To Thomas dawson for a warrant, vjd. For two dayes for dressinge the common vennell in Raynton Loninge, vij^^. [Other usual payments]. Expences ix/. vjs. ijd. ' This entry, together with the following reference to beacons, and repeated inspections of the armour this year and afterwards, seems significant of the political state of things at this time ; also, and still more, in \622 and subsequent years. The projected intervention of England at this period of James's reign in the contest on the Continent between the Protestant States and Spain may account for such military activity.