A few extracts from account books will supply further details as to the usual scale of remuneration for nurses; no doubt in each case the money given was in addition to meat and drink. Sarah Fell enters “by mᵒ given Ann Daniell for her paines about Rachell Yeamans when she died 05.00.”[577] Timothy Burrell “pd. Gosmark for tending Mary 3 weeks 6s.”[578] Lady Grisell Baillie engaged a special nurse for her daughter Rachy at a fee of 5s.[579] At Herstmonceux Castle they “pd Hawkin’s wife for tending the sick maiden 10 days 3s. Pd. Widdow Weeks for tending sick seruants a fortnight 4s.”[580] Sir John Foulis in Scotland paid “to Ketherin in pᵗ paymᵗ & till account for her attendance on me the time of my sickness 12. 0. 0” [scots].[581] “To Katherine tueddie in compleat paymᵗ for her attendance on me wⁿ I was sick 20. 0. 0.” [scots].[582] “To my good douchter jennie to give tibbie tomsone for her attendance on my wife the time of her sickness 5. 16. 0. [scots].”[583] Footnote 577: Fell (Sarah), _Household Accounts_, p. 285. June 20, 1676. Footnote 578: _Sussex Arch. Coll._, Vol. III., p. 123. _Journal of Timothy Burrell._ 1688. Footnote 579: _Baillie, Lady Grisell, Household Book._ Intro. lxvii. Footnote 580: _Sussex Arch. Coll._, Vol. XLVIII., p. 121. 1643-1649. Footnote 581: Foulis, Sir John, _Account Book_, p. 346. May 23, 1704. Footnote 582: _Ibid._ p. 396. August 22, 1705. Footnote 583: _Ibid._ p. 314. January 28, 1703. All the above instances refer to professional nursing; that is to say to the tending of the sick for wages, but nursing was more often of an unprofessional character. Sickness was rife in all classes, and for the most part the sick were tended by the women of their household or family. The claim for such assistance was felt beyond the limits of kinship, and in the village community each woman would render it to her neighbour without thought of reward. The solidarity of the community was a vital tradition to the village matron of the early seventeenth century, and it was only in cases of exceptional isolation or difficulty, or where the sick person was a stranger or an outcast that the services of a paid nurse were called in. Probably the standard of efficiency was higher in domestic than in professional nursing, because professional nurses received no systematic training. Their rate of remuneration was low, the essential painfulness of their calling was not concealed by the glamour of a religious vocation, still less was it rewarded by any social distinction. Therefore the women who took up nursing for their livelihood did so from necessity, and were drawn from the lower classes.