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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.