7th May, 1656.--"I bought of William Clowson, upholsterer and itinerant, living over against the Crosse at Chichester, but who comes about the country with his pack on horseback:-- A fine large coverlett with birds and bucks _£_2 10 0 A sett of striped curtains and valance 1 8 0 A coarse 8 qr coverlett 1 2 0 Two middle blankets 1 4 0 One beasil or Holland tyke or bolster 1 13 6 "My mayde being sicke, I paid for opening her veine 4_d._, to the widow Rugglesford for looking to her, I gave 1_s._; and to Old Bess, for tending on her 3 days and 2 nights, I gave 1_s._; in all 2_s._ 4_d._--this I gave her. "Lent to my brother Luxford at the Widow Newports, never more to be seene! 1_s._" In 1658.--"To Wm Batchelor for bleeding mee in bed 2_s._ 6_d._, and for barbouring mee 1_s._" A year later:--"I agreed with Mr. Batchelor of Lindfield to barbour mee, and I am to pay him 16_s._ a yeare, beginning from Lady Day." In 1671.--"I bargained with Edward Waters that he should have 18_s._ in money for the trimming of mee by the year, and deducting 1_s._ 6_d._ for his tythes." 23rd April, 1660.--"This being King Charles II. coronation I gave my namesake Moore's daughter then marryed 10_s._ and the fiddlers 6_d._ "I payed the Widow Potter of Hoadleigh for knitting mee one payr of worsted stockings 2_s._ 6_d._; for spinning 2 lb of wool 14_d._, and for carding it 2_d._ "To the collections made at 3 several sacraments I gave 3 several sixpences." 12th May, 1673.--"I went to London, spending there, going and coming, as _alibi apparet in particularibus_, 13_s._ 8_d._; I bought for Ann Brett a gold ring, this being the posy, 'When this you see, remember mee,' and at the same time I bought Patrick's _Pilgrim_, 5_s._; _The Reasonableness of Scripture_, by Sir Chas. Wolseley, 2_s._ 6_d._; and a Comedy called _Epsom Wells_." Mr. Moore, having suffered in his tithes, left the following "necessary caution" for his successor:--"Never compound with any parishioner till you have first viewed theire lande and seen what corne they have upon it that yeare, and may have the next." [Sidenote: SHEFFIELD PARK]