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.


It. for a gown for my brother Willm.	vjs. viijd.
It. for a hosse clothe of roset, the price	viijd.
Summa	iiijli. ixs. xd. [folio 63a]
It. for vij hundurd wood and a halffe that my mothere hade at Schelffangguy, [Shelfanger, a parish in Norfolk, near Diss.] the price of a hundurd xxd., summa vij hundurd and di.	xijs. vjd.
It. for vij cumbe whete and ij bushell, the price of a cumbe iijs. iiijd. summa	xixs. viijd.
It. for a cumbe of mesclyn, the price	ijs. viijd.
It. for v cumbe of whete that sche bowte of me a-for I maryed, the price	vjs. viijd.
It. for ix cumbe and iij bȝ of mawlte that sche bowte of me at dyuers tymys the price of a cumbe xxd. summa	xvjs. iijd. [A.D. 1503].
It. for ij yere bordyng of my brother Willm. Kempe yendyng upon seynt Edmonddys day a-for Crystmes in the xix yere of Kyng Harry y^e vij^th	iijli. vjs. viijd.
Summa	vjli. iiijs. vd. [Summa totalis xli. xiiijs. iijd. wher of abate [but it does not say what].]

ROBERT MELTON'S ACCOUNTS: PURCHASES. [A.D. 1502.] [folio 65b]

This boke witnesseith of sweche cornne as I, Melton, haue bowte of dyuers menne frome Mydsummer in the xvij yere of king harry the vij^th as apeurth her-aftur.

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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 168
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
Subject terms: Commonplace-books

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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