SANCTI LEONARDI EBORACEN (St. Leonard's Hospital, York, a College of Austin Canons).

Hic habent brachium et digitum sancti Leonardi in veneracione et ejus imaginem.

ECCLESIA CATHEDRALIS EBORACEN.

Huc fit perigrinacio ad sanctum Eboracen archiepiscopum.

Willielmum

ARTHINGTON MONIALIUM (Benedictine Nunnery). Zonam habent beate Marie ut creditur.

HAMPALL MONIALIUM (Hampole, Cistercian Nunnery). Huc fit perigrinatio ad sanctum Ricardum non

canonizatum.

BASTDALE MONIALIUM (Basedale, Cistercian Nunnery). Hic habent lac (ut putatur) beate Marie in

veneracione.

WHITEBY (Whitby, Benedictine Abbey).

Hic collitur Sancta Hilda.

WYKEHAM MONIALIUM (Cistercian Nunnery). Hic colitur sancta Scytha.

NONNEKELING MONIALIUM (Nun-Keeling, Benedictine

Nunnery).

Hic habent partem Sancti Crucis.

HALTEMPRIST (Haltemprise, Priory of Austin Canons).

Huc fit perigrinatio ad Thomas Wake pro febri, et in veneracione habent brachum sancti Georgii, et partem sancti Crucis, et zonam beate Marie parturientibus salutiferam ut putatur.

NEWBURGH (Priory of Austin Canons).

Hic quandam zonam habent sancti Salvatoris que (ut dicitur) prodest parturientibus. Habent etiam brachium divini Hieromiani in veneracione.

RIVALL ALIAS RYVERS (Rievaulx, Cistercian Abbey). Hic zonam habent sancti Alredi parturientibus (ut putatur) salutiferam.

KIRKESTALL (Kirkstall, Cistercian Abbey).

Hic cingulam habent sancti Bernardi pro parturientibus.

JERIVALL ALIAS GERVES (Jervaulx, Cistercian Abbey.) Et hic quoque cingulam habent beate Marie (ut creditur) parturientibus salutare.

CORAM ALIAS COVERHAM (Coverham, Premonstratensian Abbey).

Habent cingulam Marie Nevill ex ferro parturientibus (ut creditur) conducentem.

The East Riding and the Purveyance Con= tracts of the Royal household, temp. James the First.

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S appears from the copies of documents which follow, Yorkshire, for various economic purposes, in which joint action by the county had to be considered by the respective Ridings separately, was held by "anchient rule" to be fiscally answerable to the demands of authority in these proportions: the East Riding, 3; the West Riding, ; the North Riding, 30. In 1595, this rule was applied, as probably on many other occasions, to the levying of taxation in the assessments made for the support of wounded soldiery, and it is to be gathered that the procedure was the execution of an agreement by the Justices of the Peace. The proportional division was adopted in the privileged contracts for the yearly purveyance for the royal household, in the matter of the supply of beeves, which is the subject of the two manuscripts. It is noticeable that the price of an ox in 1609 is £4, but in 1617 only 50s. The papers, as seen in the concluding notes, passed from hand to hand, but evidently went no further than to Mr. Alured, for they came into my possession with other papers relating to the Alured family.

1609.

In the

T. TINDALL WILDRIDGE.

1. PROVISION OF BEEVES 1609.

xvjto Martii The p'portions allotted unto ev'ye wapontake and libertie in the Countie of Yorke for paym of foure hundred and fortye pounds by yeare towardes his Mats p'vision of beeves, vizt one hundred and tenn oxen at iiiji the oxe, besides the King's allowance; All wh. somes are

Countye of

York

rated according to p'portions agreed on for six hundred maymed souldiers anno Dno. 1595 by the Consent and agreem' of all the Justices of peace of Yorkeshire before the right hon'able the Earle of Huntington then lord lieveten'nt of the north p❜tes.

North Rid
Com' Ebor'

Som' totalis is ccccxl [v]

2. PROVISION OF BEEVES, 1616.
Articles of agreem' and composic❜on
had and made the xijth day of Feb: anno
xiiijto Regis Jacobi: Between the Right
Honoble Lodowicke Duke of Lenoxe, Lo:
Steward of his Mats most hoble hous-
hould, Edw: L: Wotton Tr'er of the
same, S Tho Edmundes knight Comp-
troller of the same, and the rest of the
officers of his Mats Greencloth on the be-
halfe of his Maty wth those whose names
are heerafter written Compounders on
the behalfe of the Inhabytantes of the

County of Yorke for Certaine p'visions for y expense of his Mat houshold.

ts

1. First wheras by a Composit'on form'ly made the whole County of Yorke were charged to delyv' one hundred and tenn lean oxen towards the p'vision of his Mats most Honoble houshold wch usually have been raysed wthin the three sev'all Rydinges within the said County accordinge to an anchient rule by them observed in all paym by devydinge 30li into 12: 10: and 8. It is nowe agreed upon at the petic'on of Sr Tho : Posthumus Hoby and S Will'm Bamburgh k and Walter Bethell Esqr.; Justices of peace wthin the East Ridd' S John Jackson k and Mr Sergeant Hutton Esqr Justices of peace wthin the West Ridd' Sr Hen Bellasis kt Baronett, S Tho. Posthumus Hoby S Will'm Bamburgh S Rich Musgrave, S Tho: Bellasis Sr Rich Etherington, S Timothy Whittingham kts, Richard Darley, Walter Bethell and Roger Gregory Esqrs Justices of peace wthin the North Ridd' in the behalfe of the rest of the Inhabytantes that accordinge to the aforesaid Devision of 12, 10li and 8 to 30 they shall observe their anchient Custome in the Raysinge of their sev'all p'porc'ons of oxen due for each sev'all Ryding to serve for the expence of his Mats houshold.

2. It'm yt is agreed accordingly that there shalbe yeerly delyv'ed by the Inhabytantes of the East Ridd' at his Mas pastures at Cresloe twenty and nyne lean oxen of great and large bone upon the 10th Day of May at Ls. the peece.

3. It'm it is agreed that there shalbe delyvered by the Inhabitants of the west Ridd' yeerly upon the tenth Day of May at Cresloe forty and fower leane oxen of a large and great bone at Ls the peece.