Highways and Byways in Surrey

Name: Highways and Byways in Surrey
Author: Parker, Eric

Parker, Eric

Surrey (England) -- Description and travel

Fyrste to George Melleshe Mchaunt Taylor for black lxxv^li v^s.
    It^m two tonne of beare iii^li.
    It^m iiii quarters wheat iii^li xiiii^s iiii^d.
    Item ii oxen vi^li xiii^s iiii^d.
    Item iiii vealls xiii^s iiii^d.
    Item iiii muttons xvi^s viii^d.
    Item iiii piggs v^s iiii^d.
    Item iiii doz. pyghons viii^s.
    Item vii doz. conyes xvi^s.
    Item iv doz. checkens vi^s viii^d.
    Item sugere spyces and frutes v^li.
    Item wyne v^li.
    Item to one Garrett for helping in the kitchyne too days ii^s.
    Item to Richard Leys for monye borowed of him to be dystributed at
      Horselye when S^r Thom Cawarden dyed for neesorryes iii^li.
    Item for the lone of black cottons xiii^s 1^d ob.
    Item for the waste of other cotten iii^s.
    Item for xxvii yards of black cotten that conveyed the wagon wherein
      the corse was carried to Blechinglie from Horselye xv^s ix^d.

The black and the bakemeats and the beer cost altogether L149 16_s._
11_d._ But Sir Thomas had foreseen it all. There were estimates obtained
for such things in those days. Here is the estimate made by a herald of
the funeral charges of Sir Thomas's lady:--

    PREPARATION to be made for the BURYALL of the LADY CARDYN.

    First the body to be well syred (cered) and chested.
    Item a place to be appointed wher the body shall be buryed.
    Item, ordre to be takin for the hangyng of the churche withe blacke.
    Item, order to be takyn for the raylles wher the morners
      shall knele, to be hangyd with blacke; and also the churche, and the
      said raylles, to be garnyshed with scochins.
    Item, to apoint a gentylman in a blacke gowne to cary the penon of
      armes.
    Item, to apoint v women morners, wherof the chiefest to be in the
      degree of a lady.
    Item, to apoint a knyght or a squier to lede the chieff morner.
    Item, to apoint iiii gentylmen to be assystance to the body.
    Item, yeomen in blacke cottes to carry the body.
    Item, to appoint a preacher.
    Item, to appoint a paulle of blacke velvett to laye upon the body
      during the service.
    Item, prestes and clarks to by appontyd for the said service.

Clarencieulx King of Armes was to manage it, to have five yards of black
cloth for his mourning gown, five shillings a day for his services, L3
6s. 8d. for his fee, and to be paid back "his chargys to be boryn to and
fro." Men knew how to die then, and how to be buried.

Bletchingley manor, after the Cawardens, came to the Howards of
Effingham, and so to an heiress Elizabeth Countess of Peterborough, the
richest and loveliest lady of her day. Her son fought for the king
against his own father, and the House of Commons fined him L10,000 for
turning Roman Catholic. The money had to be found, and the manor was
sold to Sir Robert Clayton, Whig, Lord Mayor, plutocrat, and, according
to Dryden, extortioner. But Dryden's political satire was not always
fair. Ishban, in _Absalom and Achitophel_ is Sir Robert--

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Highways and Byways in Surrey

Parker, Eric

Surrey (England) -- Description and travel

Fyrste to George Melleshe Mchaunt Taylor for black lxxv^li v^s.
    It^m two tonne of beare iii^li.
    It^m iiii quarters wheat iii^li xiiii^s iiii^d.
    Item ii oxen vi^li xiii^s iiii^d.
    Item iiii vealls xiii^s iiii^d.
    Item iiii muttons xvi^s viii^d.
    Item iiii piggs v^s iiii^d.
    Item iiii doz. pyghons viii^s.
    Item vii doz. conyes xvi^s.
    Item iv doz. checkens vi^s viii^d.
    Item sugere spyces and frutes v^li.
    Item wyne v^li.
    Item to one Garrett for helping in the kitchyne too days ii^s.
    Item to Richard Leys for monye borowed of him to be dystributed at
      Horselye when S^r Thom Cawarden dyed for neesorryes iii^li.
    Item for the lone of black cottons xiii^s 1^d ob.
    Item for the waste of other cotten iii^s.
    Item for xxvii yards of black cotten that conveyed the wagon wherein
      the corse was carried to Blechinglie from Horselye xv^s ix^d.

The black and the bakemeats and the beer cost altogether L149 16_s._
11_d._ But Sir Thomas had foreseen it all. There were estimates obtained
for such things in those days. Here is the estimate made by a herald of
the funeral charges of Sir Thomas's lady:--

    PREPARATION to be made for the BURYALL of the LADY CARDYN.

    First the body to be well syred (cered) and chested.
    Item a place to be appointed wher the body shall be buryed.
    Item, ordre to be takin for the hangyng of the churche withe blacke.
    Item, order to be takyn for the raylles wher the morners
      shall knele, to be hangyd with blacke; and also the churche, and the
      said raylles, to be garnyshed with scochins.
    Item, to apoint a gentylman in a blacke gowne to cary the penon of
      armes.
    Item, to apoint v women morners, wherof the chiefest to be in the
      degree of a lady.
    Item, to apoint a knyght or a squier to lede the chieff morner.
    Item, to apoint iiii gentylmen to be assystance to the body.
    Item, yeomen in blacke cottes to carry the body.
    Item, to appoint a preacher.
    Item, to appoint a paulle of blacke velvett to laye upon the body
      during the service.
    Item, prestes and clarks to by appontyd for the said service.

Clarencieulx King of Armes was to manage it, to have five yards of black
cloth for his mourning gown, five shillings a day for his services, L3
6s. 8d. for his fee, and to be paid back "his chargys to be boryn to and
fro." Men knew how to die then, and how to be buried.

Bletchingley manor, after the Cawardens, came to the Howards of
Effingham, and so to an heiress Elizabeth Countess of Peterborough, the
richest and loveliest lady of her day. Her son fought for the king
against his own father, and the House of Commons fined him L10,000 for
turning Roman Catholic. The money had to be found, and the manor was
sold to Sir Robert Clayton, Whig, Lord Mayor, plutocrat, and, according
to Dryden, extortioner. But Dryden's political satire was not always
fair. Ishban, in _Absalom and Achitophel_ is Sir Robert--

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Highways and Byways in Surrey

Highways and Byways in Surrey

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