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 Elena White, 44. Summa xxvj s. x d. (The Poll Tax of Richard II.: Yorks. Archælog: Soc. Publications).

There are here given forty households with the mention of husband and wife, and about a dozen more may be safely added to these forty in estimating the total number of houses and population. The employments, which are given in italics, show the number of those who depended upon other occupations than those connected with agriculture. The "Barker," the "Skynner," with the four "Souters," (shoemakers) would point to the ancient tanyards here, and the two "Smyths," one of whom is the only person who pays 12d. for himself and his wife, tell us of the iron-forges, with the "Smyth" and the "Blomer" found here as surnames. In his Industrial Biography, Smiles gives an extract from a contract made, Dec. 26th, 1352, for supplying wood and iron for iron "blomes" at Kirskell near Otley, these "blomes" being probably the bloomeries or fires in which the iron was made. (pp. 30, 1.)

The names of Barnebe, Jouet, Taylour, Daykins, Mokeson, Brookehouse, are still found existing as names of families or places. Two hundred years later than the above Poll Tax we have a few Cawthorne names mentioned in "Musters taken of the Privat Men and Towne Soldiers within the Wapentacke of Staincrose at Barnsleye the iiijth of December, 1587, by Richard Wortleye and George Woodroff, Esquires." Cawthorne, Thurlstone, Barnsley, and Worsbrough are the only places in the Wapentake where there are four "Town Soldiers" required; their names at Cawthorne are P. Edmonde Haighe, F.; C. William Hawcrofte, F.; C. Richard Gawthorpe, F.; P. Richard Rawling, F. Armor. The "Private Men" here are P. William Champneye, F.; C. Thomas Greene, F.; P. Thomas Catlowe, F.; C. William Greene, F. The letter "P." means "Armed Picks;" "C." means "Calivers" (a kind of musket, from calibre); "F." shows that they were properly armed or "furnyshed." In this local militia are found many names of families which have had a prominent connection with the places they are mentioned under. At Thurgoland, we find "P. Thomas Cudworth F., savinge a better man," one of the family which resided at Eastfield for four hundred years; at Stainbrough we find John Cutler, one