Edward Lloyd pray the alowance xjj for a qr. David Glover the elder, in xiiij lycke manner Richard Salter was longe xiijj sycke, and praythe alowance Thomas Glover praythe xx alowaunce for half a yere; aledginge, that he sold no alle for that space (3 others) Payments for the provision of the genrall Feast unto the Coo-burgesses according to the aunsient costom, holden the vth day of Desember, in the thryde yere of the raynge of our sovraynge layde Ellizabeth, by the grace of God quene of England, &c. at the making of this accompt: _s._ _d._ _Whete_. Fyrste, the saide accomptaunt xj hathe payde for ii stryckes and a hoope of whette for brede and for peys _Maullt_. Allso payde for iii strycke of xij maullt _Boochers_. Allso payde for a qr. and ii vj viij rybes of byff Allso payde for mytton for to ij vj make peys for this feast . . . for iij_lb._ ressyns xij . . . s pep v ij _Cloves_, _&c._ Allso payde for cloves, masses, vj aud saffrone Allso payde for synamon and vij sugr. Itm. pd. for buttr. spent at viij this feast _Chese_. Allso payde for chesses ij ix _Nyttes_, &c. Allso pd. for appells and nyttes xvj _Saullt_. Allso payde for a hoope of sallt x for the byff _This Accompt was made before us_, _the persons under-named_, _then Bailiffe of the said Towne_, JOHN STANNEY, THOMAS EVANS. * * * * * With these awful calamities the people endured severe privation, both as to food and clothing. Provisions had risen so enormously in price as to place even the coarsest food beyond the reach of the poor. We are told that so deficient were the working-classes of the commonest provision, that they were glad to resort, for subsistence, to horse-bread, composed of beans, oats, and bran. “The good old times” are too frequently quoted as periods of comfort, compared with the present days; but such facts as have been now related must convince every Englishman of right feeling that, however humble his lot, he still possesses “a goodly heritage.”