Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) EditionReilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) Edition
Reilly, S. A.
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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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