by mᵒ Bro. Loweʳ to give Jane Chorley his wifes midwife 1. 00.00 by mᵒ Motheʳ gave to sᵈ midwife 5. 00 by mᵒ Sistʳ Sus: sistʳ Rach: & I gave heʳ 5. 00 Dec. 6. 1676. By M° Given ffran. Laite Sister Lowers middwife by ffatheʳ & Motheʳ 5s. by sistʳ Sus: 2s. by sistʳ Rach: 2s. myselfe 4s. Dec. 10, 1677 by mᵒ Motheʳ gave ffrances Layte when she was middwife to Sistʳ Lower of litle Love-day Loweʳ 02.06, by mᵒ sistʳ Susannah gave heʳ then 01.00 by mᵒ sister Rachell gave her then 01.00 (Fell, Sarah, _Household Accounts_). Footnote 644: Assheton (Nicholas), _Journal_, p. 81. The Churchwardens at Cowden entered in their account book 1627 “Item, paide for a poore woman’s lying in 3. 0.” 1638. “to John Weller’s wife for her attendance on the widow Smithe when she lay in 2. 0.”[645] Footnote 645: _Sussex Arch. Coll_., Vol. XX., p. 101 and p. 104. _Account Book of Cowden._ The account book of Sir John Foulis of Ravelstone gives many details of the expenses incurred at confinements in Scotland. His wife appears to have been attended by a doctor, as well as a midwife, and the latter’s fee was the higher of the two. The payments are in Scots money.[646] “Mar. 26 1680, to the doctor Steinsone for waiting on my wife in her labour 2 guines at 33 P. sterl. p.piece, 27. 16. 0, to Elspie dicksone, midwife, 40. 12. 0, to her woman 2. 18. 0.” On November 26, 1692 there is another payment “to my wife to give doctor Sibbald for his attendance on her in childbed and since to this day 5 guineas 66. 0. 0.” Jan. 31, 1704 “to my son Wᵐ to give the midwife when his wife was brought to bed of her sone Joⁿ 3 guineas 42. 12. 0. to my douchter Crichtoune to give the midwife for me halfe a guinie 7. 2. 0.” Footnote 646: One pound Scots—20d. sterling. The size of the gratuities given to the midwife by the friends and acquaintances who gathered at a society christening in London may be judged from Pepys, who enters in his diary when he was Godfather with Sir W. Pen to Mrs. Browne’s child “I did give the midwife 10s.”[647] His gratuities to people of lower rank were smaller, and of course the gifts made by the “common people” and those of the gentry in the provinces were much more modest. Footnote 647: Pepy’s _Diary_, Vol. I., p. 308. 1661.