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Catalogue of Brand Material.
V. Business Transactions.
Slaughtering Cattle for winter provision,
called Mart (1777) in - Ditto, called Mairt in - Hiring Servants for year or half- year. In November
Rents and Dues Paid.
Church-scot, a hearth-tax due at Christmas, paid in corn in the parish church the next Mar- tinmas -----
Cocks and hens paid as church- shot, 14th century
" Wroth-silver " paid by inhabi- tants of Knightlow Manor, supposed due for passage of cattle across lord's waste
Northumberland . Cumberland.
(Hiring Fairs.) ^
Northumberland (Aln- wick, Hexham, Mor- peth).
Cumberland (Carlisle, Keswick, Maryport).
Westmoreland (Kendal).
Durham (Bishop Auck- land, Durham, Dar- lington).
Yorks. (Northallerton ?, Stokesley ?, Whitby, Beverley, Brandsbur- ton, Hedon, Hornsea, Patrington, Pockling- ton, Doncaster, Leeds, Rotherham, Ripon).
Isle of Axholme (half- yearly) .
Notts. (Bingham, Not- tingham).
Derby (Alfreton, Belper, Wirksworth) .
Cheshire (Macclesfield).
Staffs. (Leek).
Leic. (Melton Mowbray ?).
Warw. (Rugby).
Northants. (Northamp- ton). ^
Laws of King Ina.
Hants. (Hurstbourne Priors).
Warw. (Knightlow).
' So far as known at present.
