Our Legal Heritage, King AEthelbert, 596 to King George III, 1775Reilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage, King AEthelbert, 596 to King George III, 1775
Reilly, S. A.
Law -- England -- History
Expenses: For ironwork of 8 carts for year and one cart for half
the year, 32s.10d. For shoeing of 2 plough horses for the year,
2s.8d. For wheels for carts, 2s.9d. For 6 carts made over, 12d.
before the arrival of the carpenter. For wages of the smith for
the year, 8s.6d. For one cart bound in iron bought new, 5s.7d. For
wheels purchased for one cart to haul dung, 12d. For leather
harness and trappings, iron links, plates, halters, 14d. For
purchase of 2 ropes, 3d. For purchase of 2 sacks, 8d. For purchase
of 5 locks for the granary, 11d. For making 2 gates for the
sheepfold, 2s. For one gate for the farm yard, 12d. For an ax and
tallow purchased and for repairing the spindles of the mill for
the year, 6s.10d. For one millstone purchased for the mill 24s.
For making one gate near the mill, 12d. For meat prepared in the
larder, 3s. For beer bought for cleaning carcasses, 2s.1d. For
digging 158 perches of land around the pasture in the marsh,
32s.11d.; for each perch 2d.1ob. For the dovecote newly made,
22s.11d.1ob. For cutting 100 thick planks for flooring both
dispensary and butlery, 6s.3d. For nails or pegs bought for
planking beyond the cellar, 16d. For enclosing the garden by
making 2 gates, 6s.7d.1ob. For digging in the gardens, 8s.5d. For
the winter work of 55 carts, 9s.2d. For the Lent work of 49 carts,
8s.6d. For spreading 6 acres with dung, 6d. For threshing 24
quarters of wheat at Mardon for seed, 5s. For winnowing the same,
7d. For winnowing 36 quarters of grain for seed, 3s.9d. For
threshing 192 quarters of grain 32s.; for each quarter 2d. For
threshing 20 quarters of mixed corn [grain], 2s.6d. For threshing
42 quarters of barley, 3s.6d. For threshing 53 quarters of oats,
2s.2d.1ob. For hauling gravel to the bridge and causeway, 4d. For
cost of dairy, viz., 3 tines of salt, cloth, and pots, 6s.10d. For
purchase of 17 oxen, 5 pounds 13s. For hoeing 140 acres, 5s.10d.
For wages of two carters, one neatherd, for the year, 9s. For
wages of one carpenter for the year, 6s.8d. For wages of one dairy
woman, 2s.6d. For payment of mowers of the meadow at Nunton, 6d.
For 8 sheep purchased, 8s. For wages of one neatherd from Nunton,
12d. For carrying 2 casks of wine by Walter Locard, in the time of
Martinmas, 8s.2d. For the carrying of 2 casks of wine from
Southampton to Downton by the seneschal, 3s.6d. at the feast of
St. Lawrence. For digging 22 perches in the farmyard, 6s.5d.; for
each perch 3d.1ob. For allowance of food of Robert of Lurdon, who
was sick for 21 days, with his man, 5s.3d. For allowance of food
to Sewal who was caring for 2 horses of the lord bishop for 3
weeks, 21d. For allowance of food for Roger Walselin, for the two
times he made gifts to the lord king at Clarendon, 4s.9d. by two
tallies. For allowance of food of Master Robert Basset, for 3
journeys, 9s.3d.1ob. For livery of William FitzGilbert, 60s.10d.
For 30 ells of canvas purchased for laying over the wool, and 2
cushions prepared for the court, 5s.
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