Suss. Arch. Coll. Vol. IV., p. 24. _Everendon Account Book._ Footnote 114: Tingye (J. C.), _Eng. Hist. Rev._, Vol. XIII., pp. 525-6. Footnote 115: Pepys, Vol. V., p. 302. (11th June, 1668). Footnote 116: Foulis (Sir John) _Acct. Bk._, p. 246. But the wives of husbandmen were not confined to agricultural work as is shown by many payments entered to them in account books:[117] Thus the church wardens at Strood, in Kent, paid the widow Cable for washing the surplices 1s.[118]; and at Barnsley they gave “To Ricard Hodgaris wife for whipping dogs” (out of the Church) 2s.[119] while “Eustace Lowson of Salton (a carrier of lettres and a verie forward, wicked woman in that folly)” and Isabell her daughter are included in a Yorkshire list of recusants.[120] Footnote 117: “Aug. 7th., 1701 to my wife, to a Bleicher wife at bonaley for bleitching 1. 3. 4.” (Scots) “Jan. 28th, 1703 to my good douchter jennie to give tibbie tomsome for her attendance on my wife the time of her sickness 5.16.0 (Scots). (_Foulis (Sir John) Acct. Bk._ p. 295, 314.) “Sep. 11th, 1676, pd. her (Mary Taylor) more for bakeing four days. Mothers Acct. 8d. (_Fell, (Sarah) Household Accts._ p. 309.) “Pd. Widow Lewis for gathering herbs two daies 6d. (Sussex, Arch. Coll. xlviii. p. 120. _Extracts from the Household Account Book of Herstmonceux Castle._) “Paid to goodwife Stopinge for 2 bundles of Rushes at Whitsuntide for the Church, iiijid. (_Churchwarden’s Account Book, Strood_, p. 95, 1612.” Footnote 118: _Churchwarden’s Account Book, Strood_, p. 197. 1666. Footnote 119: Cox (J. C.) _Churchwarden’s Accts._, p. 309. Footnote 120: _Yorks. North Riding, Q.S. Rec._, Vol. I., p. 62, Jan. 8., 1606-7. No doubt the mother with young children brought them with her to the harvest field, where they played as safely through the long summer day as if they and she had been at home. But at other times she chose work which did not separate her from her children, spinning being her unfailing resource. It is difficult living in the age of machinery to imagine the labour which clothing a family by hand-spinning involved, though the hand-spun thread was durable and fashions did not change. In spite of the large demand the price paid was very low, but when not obliged to spin for sale, time was well spent in spinning for the family. The flax or hemp grown on the allotment, was stored up for shirts and house-linen. If the husbandman had no sheep, the children gathered scraps of wool from the brambles on the common, and thus the only money cost of the stuff worn by the husbandman’s household was the price paid to the weaver.