eating, &c., for the Sunday School Feast, £13 3s. 4d.; Cheese "£2 0s.o½d.; ale £2 12s. 11d.; and cheese (again) £1 1s. 3d." Joseph Shaw's bill for 240 lbs. of mutton in the next year's accounts is £8: while in 1802 T. Shirt's bill for five bushels of malt is £2 5s.; Dame Moxon, for ale, &c, 13s. 11d.; Judah Hinchliffe, for 44 lbs. of lamb, ₤1 9s. 4d.; J. Shaw, 47 lbs. of beef, £1 11s. 4d.; Judah Hinchliffe, 240 lbs. of mutton at 8d., £8. The meat "for Sunday Schoolmasters" in 1803 comes to £14 5s. 4d. Judah Hinchliffe for meat, Mr. West, or some one else, for malt, are yearly items for a long period. These matters have only any interest at the present time as showing what the system of the Cawthorne Sunday School was eighty years ago, and as also showing that the price of beef, mutton, and lamb at Cawthorne in 1801-2 was no less than 8d. a lb., at a time of great national distress, when the Report of a Parliamentary Committee on the price of provisions "strongly recommended all individuals to use every means in their power to reduce the consumption of wheaten flour in their families, and to encourage by their example and influence every possible economy in this article, advising that charitable relief should be given in anything else rather than bread and flour;" and when a law was actually passed, prohibiting bakers from exposing any bread for sale which had not been baked twenty-four hours, "as it appeared that the consumption of bread baked for some hours was much less considerable than if eaten new."
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