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 HISTORY OP BISHOP AUCKLAND. 9 son of Richard de Allirton, carpenters, from Sunday next after the feast of St. Barnabas, to Sunday after Michaelmas, for 16 weeks in sawing bords, and for covering the kitchen and a porch at the door of the long stable, and repairing other houses 104s., to each per week 2s. 2d. For repairing two bridges within the Park, viz., ike Bridge of Coundounbum and the Bridge of Eggisclyffbum, by two carpenters for two weeks, 6s. 8d., to each per week 20d. Mownra. — ^For mowing 18 acres of meadow within the Park, which the bondagers are not bound to mow, 7s. 6d., at 6d. per acre. For strewing the said grass, 9d. For turning and making the said hay, 4s. 4d. To two men loading carts with hay, for four days 12d., to each per day 1 Jd. To three men stacking the hay in the grange, for six days 2s. 3d., 1 Jd. per day. For mowing 18 acres of meadow in the Park, and four acres of the hall meadows, nothing in money, because among the 168 services. For strewing the said hay nothing, because it was done by the cottagers. For making the said hay by 84 persons, of whom 28 had their meat, 14d., to each a Jd. for his meat. For carrying the said hay by 56 persons, of whom 28 had their meat, to each Id. of custom. Sum 29s. 4d. Stipends. — ^The stipend of the " Parkar'* for the terms of Martinmas and Pentecost, 6s. To the Porter for the said tenns, 4s. To the Plumber for his stipend during the time of this account, and to the feast of St. Andrew following, 30s. Sum 39s. Payment of Money.— To John Baret, steward of Goundou, £7 3s. 6d. To 18 bondagers of West Aukland, for carrying six score loads of wood, of custom, 10s. To 28 bondagers of Aukland, Escom, and Newton, for performing their wodelade, 14d., to each ^. To Walter Mummyng, the porter, for seed and other things for repairing his curtilage, by command of the auditor, 4s. 9d. To a doctor for healing the head of a clerk, by command of my Lord Bishop, 40d. To dom. Nicholas de Gategang, by an indenture, £12. The Gbanary. — ^Wheat : The same answers for 7 bus. of wheat, the remnant of the preceding account ; and for 13 qu. of wheat received from 51 bondagers of Heighington, Midrige, and Eillirby, and from 2 malm of Heighington, for their " Skat" rent, viz., from every bondager 2 bus. heaped up, and from every " Malm" 1 bus. heaped up. And for 4 qu. 2 bus. received of increment, as of heaped up measure, of every 6 bus. 2 bus. And for 3 qu. 4 bus. received from 28 bondagers of Aukland, Escumb, and Newton, for the like rent, of every bondager I bus. heaped up. And for 7 bus. of wheat, market measure, received from Braffirton. And for 1 qu. of wheat received from the steward of Stoketon. And for 2 qu. of wheat received from the steward of Ryhenhale. And for 4 qu. of wheat received from the steward of Midrige. And for 4 bus. received from the steward of Goundou. Sum 31 qu. 1 bus. To a mason making an oven by order of the Bailiff, 2 bus. In baked bread for the use of Master John de Wytcherch, and those along with him, hunting in Werdale, 3 qu. Oxen and Cows foe the Labder. — He answers for 24 oxen received from the steward of Middilham for the larder. And for 1 ox received from the steward of Miderig. And for 4 oxen, of which one was a cow, from the steward of Stokton. And for 23 oxen and cows received from the stock in Werdall by 4 tallies. And for 6 oxen received from the steward of Alverton by tally. Sum 58. Of which delivered for the laider, by tally, written by the hand of William de Lancaster, 52 carcases; and to the steward of Stokton by tally 6. None remaining. Days-wobks. — He answers for 1064 days-works, by the lesser hundred, received from 28 bondagers of Aukland, Escom, and Neuton, from the feast of St. Martin to St. Peter ad Yincula for 38 weeks, of each man 1 day per week. Sum 1064. Of which, in harrowing at Goundou at each seed 196 days' works by the less hundred, of each man 7 days. In dragging branches and " rys" [brushwood] for fencing the Park and the meadows within it, 28. In mowing the meadows by the bondagers, 168. In haymaking 84, of whom 28 had |d. each for food. In carrying hay 56, of whom 28 had Id. each for food, aUowed to them for a month's holiday, 112 by the lesser hundred. Gommuted for money, 420. No remnant. It would appear by the account rolls from which the above extracts are made, that the domestic arrangements at Auckland Castle, even in those days, were of a very extensive character. We have every indication, also, of a long-established residence, with suitable accompaniments and arrange- ments. It had its two chapels, my Lord's chamber, a suite of apartments, the King's chamber, the seneschal's chamber, and an extensive park. We have the steward, the park-keeper, the porter, the baker, the larder, the chandler, the plumber, and the glazier. Of the domestic servants, such as cooks, waitiug men, &c., the receiver takes no notice, as they were migratory, moving from place to place with their Lord when he was in the north, and the payment of whose wages would not come within the province of the steward. Bishop Bury is said to have been one of the most learned men of his time, and to have had more books than all the other Bishops in England put together. He had at each of his Manor-houses a distinct library, and in his bed-room, wherever he resided, the books were so numerous that it was no easy matter to enter it, or walk upon its floor. He wrote a very remarkable treatise on the love of books, entitled, " Philobiblon," which (says Raine) abundantly proves that he was a man of deep thought, intimately acquainted with the literary character of Digitized by Google