A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

[A.D. 1502.] [folio 77b]

ROBERT MELTON'S ACCOUNTS: DEBTORS.

Thes parsell folowyng be owyng to me R. Melton up on the xiiij day of Juyll Ao. H. VII. xvij^mo.

Fyrst Jamys Prime for ij cumbe mesclyn .	vjs.
It. for the same Jamys for v cumbe barly .	ixs. ijd.
It. Joh. Prime y^e elder for ij cumbe barly and iij busshell . . . . . .	iiijs. ixd.
It. Lamdon of Eye, hoser, for a cumbe of mesclyn, the price . . . . .	iijs.
It. Rabart Tayler of Eye, wryte, for a cumbe of whete . . . . . .	iijs. viijd.
It. Goslyn of Hoxon, thacher, for a bȝ [I.e. a bushell.] of whete . . . . . . .	xjd.
It. R. Page [See as to R. Page also p. 175.] of Skolle for a cumbe of whete iijs. vjd., and a cumbe of mawlte ijs., and for a cumbe pesse xxijd. . . . .	vijs. iiijd. [folio 78a]
It. Kateryn Chapman of Ocle for a bȝ of whete xijd. and for ij bȝ of mesclyn xviijd. and a bȝ of maulte vjd., or ellys vj bȝ of mesclyn at myhylmes . . . .	iijs.
It. Will. Long of Carton rode for xj cumbe and ij bȝ of barly . . . . .	xixs. ijd.
It. Hew Gey of Stuston for a bȝ of whete xjd. and a bȝ mawlte vjd. . . . .	xvijd.
Summa	v marke jd.
It. Deston of Ocley for ij bȝ of mesclyn . .	xviijd.
It. for a cumbe of maulte delyuered to the same Desston . . . . . .	ijs.
It. Dedham of Ocley for whete and mesclyn .	xjd.
It. to Mother Rymston of Eye for a cumbe of whete . . . . . . .	vijs. iiijd.

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Title: A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.
Canvas: Page 171
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
Subject terms: Commonplace-books

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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