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. 1502-3.] [folio 45a]

ROBT. MELTON'S ACCOUNTS: PURCHASES.

Thys boke witnessyth of sweche kornne as I Robt. Melton hath bowte in the xviij yer of Kyng Harry the vij^th.

Fyrst I bowte of Robt. Eyterd of Ocle x cumbe of barly and ij bȝ, the price . .	vjs. viijd.
Item of Jamys Prime v cumbe and a bȝ of whete and v cumb and a bȝ of mesclyn .	xviijs. iiijd.
Item of Recherd Adhams of Ocle xxj cumb barly, the price . . . . .	xvs.
Item to Popy for x cumbe and ij bȝ of barly bowte of hyme, the price . . .	xs.
Item to Hary Cade for v cumbe and a bȝ of barly bowte of hym . . . .	vs.
Item to Jamys Pryme upon Seynt Peter ewyn, for viij cumbe barly and a bȝ bowte of hyme the same day, the price . . .	vjs. viijd. [folio 45b]
Itm bowte of Joh. Wheymond of Ocle, betwyx Wesonday and Mydsummer, x cumbe mesclyn and ij bȝ, the price . . .	xiijs. iiijd.
Item bowte of the same Wheymond the same tyme xlvj cumbe berly . . . .	xxxiijs. iiijd.
Item at another tyme vij cumbe barly and ij bȝ, ye price . . . . . .	vs. iiijd.
Item at the iij^de tyme for xij cumbe barly and ij bȝ, the price . . . . .	ixs. ijd. [folio 46a]

Whete, mesclyn, barly, and ottys, bowte frome Crowche|mes [Crowche-mes, or Cross week, another name for Rogation week. See Brand's Popular Antiquities, ed. 1873, vol. i., p. 202.] in the xix yere of Kyng Harry the vij^th.

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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 172
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
Subject terms: Commonplace-books

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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