10d. by the day; while for a ride to Sarum, and home again in one day, he was to receive 16d. for that day and not above.
Many other curious notices deserve attention, and I may mention a few items of expenditure, of peculiar interest from the occasions on which they occur or the names with which they are associated. Thus, in 1462, there are entries of 1s. having been paid to a man for riding to Winchester "to warn the mayor of the fleet of schyppys that were under the Wyth, (Wight);" of a pipe of wine sent to the "erle of Kent, that time he hied to seward," (towards the sea,) which cost 3l. 6s. 8d.; of the cost of a guild dinner, in the early part of the reign of Edward IV., which amounted to 2l. 2s. 1012d.; and of various presents made to the king (Edward IV.) and principal nobility, to the former a hogshead of red and white wine, which cost respectively 1l. 3s. 4d. and 16s. 8d., a gallon of Ypocras 2s. 8d.; to Lord Rivers, two gallons of white wine and the same quantity of red wine, which was valued at 2s. 8d. There is also a note, that 2l. 12s. 6d. was expended by the mayor and his retinue when, in 1469, "he rode to London, to reckon with the erle of Warwick, and was there twelve days."
I will add only the following notices, extracted from some of the miscellaneous papers, which do not seem strictly to fall under any of the heads under which I have arranged my previous selections.
One of them relates to the suspicion, against a widow, of witchcraft, 1579, on which occasion an order was given "that five or six honest matrons doe see her stripped, to the end to see whether she have any bludy mark on her body, which is a common token to know all witches by." In 1577, a charge is preferred against the brewers, and they "are commanded to use no more iron-bound carts, for that it is great decay not only of the paved streate, but also causeth his beere to work uppe, in such sort that as his barrel seemeth to be full when they are brought, and when they are settled, they lack, some a gallon of beer and some more, to the enriching of the brewers, and the great defayte and hindrance of the town." And there is a singular order, "that the barbers henceforth shall not trym anie person on the Sabbath day, unless it be such gentlemen-strangers as shall on that day resort to the town." W. S. W. VAUX.
