*Sundry goods unsold:

Tobacco of the Amity's cargo to ship off: 5898 lbs. at 41d. Of ditto, tobacco to sell in the country 13,422 lbs. at 81d. Lyon's tobacco, to ship off: 3,300 lbs. at 41d.

More to sell in the country:

14,470 lbs. at 8 d.

Lamb's tobacco, to ship off: 22,477 lbs. at 41d.

Ditto tobacco, more to sell in the country: 7,807 lbs. at 81d. Society's tobacco to ship off : 3,957 lbs. at 51d.....

One-third part of Loyalty's cargo from Norway 100 0 0

Debts more, owing in the country

JOHN FRANKLAND.
JOHN COCKSHUTT.

£14240 18 5

1000 0 0

£15240 18 5

A LANCASTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL

MASTER.

THE subjoined petition of the Mayor and Commonalty of Lancaster on behalf of the "well learned master of the local school is of interest as showing the attention given to the education of children in what is often regarded as a reactionary time. The address shows it to have been sent in between July, 1554, when Philip and Mary were married, and the end of November 1557, when Sir Robert Rochester died. The chantries had been destroyed, but the five marks reserved for the schoolmaster's stipend was not confiscated, though it had become insufficient in view of the rise in prices then experienced as now. A hundred scholars was a large number for the Lancaster of that date. Unfortunately, the name of the master has not been preserved; he is no doubt the one mentioned in the story of George Marsh.1

(Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings, xxxvij, C 16)

To the Right hon'able Sr Robert Rochestre Knyght Comptroller of the King and Quenes most hon'able howseholde/ and Chauncellour of the Duchie of Lancastre.

In most humble wise Shewen unto youre hon'able mrship youre dayly orators and Supplyauntes Will'm Colteman Mayor of the Towne of Lancastr' in the countie of Lancastr' the Bayllyffes and cōmynalte of the same Towne/ That wher at this p'sent ther is a good and well lernyd Scoolle mr for gramer in the said Towne of Lancastr'/whiche Towne is nowe v'ey Ruynous and in great decaye/ and the same

1 Foxe, Acts and Monuments, vii., 47.

Scoolle mr haith no more for hys paynes and Labour for the educac'on and teachyng of yonge children and scollers ther beyng about the nombre of one hundred persones but onlye fyve m'kes by the yere whiche is a v'ey smalle thing for the mayntenance of the lyvyng of a man of suche Lernyng/ youre said poore orators the p'mysses consyderyd/ doo therefore most humbly beseche yor mrship to be a meane to the king and quenes moste excellent m'ties that suche encrease or Augmentac'on of lyvyng may be appoynted and assigned to the said Scoolle mr and the same to have contynuaunce hereafter for ev' to hym and his successors as to their m'ties shalbe thoght convenyent. And yor said oratoures shall aswell dayly praye to God for the p's'vac'on of the Kinges and Quenes Royall estates long and prosperously to Raign and contynue as also for your good mrshipes helth and honor/

NORRIS DEEDS CONCERNING

LIVERPOOL.

THE large collection of deeds belonging to the family of Norris of Speke, formerly preserved at Aston Hall, near Frodsham, and now in the British Museum, is of very great local interest, and one may hope that it will be utilised for the compilation of a satisfactory account of one of the noteworthy families of Lancashire. The following abstracts of the section concerning Liverpool form a useful supplement to the Moore deeds now in possession of the Corporation. Christopher Towneley, about 1660, made abstracts, not always satisfactory, of a large number of the Crosse deeds (Add. MS. 32107), and these would make a more important addition to Liverpool records; those of the deeds which still survive have been given in former volumes of our Transactions (by Mr. R. D. Radcliffe in vols. v.-ix., New Ser.) There are also a few Bootle family deeds in Harl. MS. 2042.

Among the Norris deeds here given one of the most important is the third, which is not properly a Liverpool deed at all. Stephen Yottin, a burgess and merchant of Liverpool, acquired a burgage in Ardglas, county Down; and thus we have evidence of the existence of a borough there about the year 1300, and the names of the reeve and some burgesses are recorded. The history of the place is very obscure; Knox's History of County