Guilding, _Reading Records_, Vol. III., p. 459. Footnote 567: _Ibid._ Vol. IV., p. 8. In rural districts where hospitals were seldom within reach, entries are not infrequently found in the parish account books of payments made to women for nursing the poor. “Item. To Mother Middleton for twoe nights watchinge with Widow Coxe’s child being sick.”[568] “To Goody Halliday, for nursing him & his family 5 weeks £1 5; to Goody Nye, for assisting in nursing, 2s. 6d.[569] ... to Goody Peckham for nursing a beggar, 5s. For nursing Wickham’s boy with the small pocks 12s.”[570] A Hertfordshire parish paid a woman 15s. for her attendance during three weeks on a woman and her illegitimate child.[571] A Morton man was ordered to pay out of his next half-year’s rent for the grounds he farmed of Isabelle Squire “20s. to Margt. Squire, who attended and looked to her half a year during the time of her distraction.”[572] Footnote 568: _Sussex Arch. Coll._, Vol. XXIII., p. 90. _Hastings Documents_, 1601. Footnote 569: _Sussex Arch. Coll._, Vol. XX., p. 117. _Acc. Book of Cowden,_ 1704. Footnote 570: _Ibid._ p. 118. Footnote 571: _Hertford County Records_, Vol. I., p. 435, 1698. Footnote 572: Atkinson, J. C., _Yorks. N. R. Q.S. Records_, Vol. VII., p. 91. 1688. Sometimes nurses were provided for the poor by religious and charitable ladies, who, like Letice, Viscountess Falkland, “hired nurses to serve them.”[573] Sick nurses were also engaged by well-to-do people to attend upon themselves or their servants. Thus the Rev. Giles Moore enters in his journal “My mayde being sicke I payd for opening her veine 4d. to the Widdow Rugglesford, for looking to her, I gave 1s. and to old Bess for tending her 3 days and 2 nights I gave 1ˢ; in all 2ˢ 4ᵈ.”[574] A little later, when the writer himself was “in an ague. Paid Goodwyfe Ward for being necessary to me 1s.”[575] Though his daughter was with him, a nurse watched in the chamber when Colonel Hutchinson died in the prison at Dover.[576] Footnote 573: _Falkland, Lady Letice, Vi-countess, Life and Death of._ Footnote 574: _Sussex Arch. Coll._, Vol. I., p. 72. _Rev. Giles Moore’s Journal._ Footnote 575: _Ibid._ Vol. I., p. 100. 1667. Footnote 576: _Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson_, p. 377.