Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776Reilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776
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. For 8
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