Wolley Ch xii.95 [1-6]

1. 'Leide downe for Mr High Shereff for Sommer Sisses [Summer Assizes] for the Judges house July the xxvth. 1631'. Paid for one wainload of coals; charcoal, 6 strikes; 10 lb. of candles; drywood for fire for the Judges' Chambers; one peck of salt; one gallon of oatmeal; the Haulberts are paid for the last assizes and the assizes both; the labourers in the house according to Moris' last bill of Allowance and as it has been heretofore accustomed for 6 of them; a hundred of eggs; 30 lb. of butter. In sum, £2.6s.8d. Item, for 40 prisoners for 3 days and a half, £3.10s. [Signed] Edward Pym.2. 'A Note for the Dyet of Mr Shereves men'. Saturday supper, 26; Sunday dinner, 29; Sunday supper, 29; Monday breakfast, 3; Monday dinner, 33; at supper, 29; Tuesday dinner, 30; Tuesday supper, 34; Wednesday dinner, 29. In sum, £12.9s.6d. Item, for the gentlemen of the Grand Jury on Tuesday dinner, 26 at 2s.; for 4 hogheads of beer; for my Charges to Leicester; 17 pastries of venison baking. In sum, £11.10s.8d. Total sum, £23.19s.2d.3. 'A note for Mr Heigh Sheriffe for dyet at this Asseses [Assizes] July the 23th 1631.' In primis, on Saturday night at supper in the Great Chamber - 9 + 8 to pay 3s., paid 1;, 'to make up twenty, 11, so m... half crownes'; Sunday breakfast with Mr Sheriff, 17 at 6d. a piece; Sunday dinner, 18, wanting 2; Sunday supper, 15, wanting 5; Monday dinner 17, wanting 3; Monday supper 21, paid 10, to pay for 11; Tuesday breakfast, 2; on Tuesday dinner 23, paid 3, unpaid 20; Tuesday supper, 22, paid 6, unpaid 16; Wednesday dinner, 20. In sum, £21.15s.0d. At the Under Sheriff's table on Monday dinner, 7s.; at supper, 7. In sum, 14s. Subtotal, £22.9s.0d. Total, for 2 subtotals of £22.9s.0d. and £23.19s.0d, is £46.9s.0d.4. [Blank]5. [Blank]

Endorsements: Endorsed on the back of folio 5: 'A Note of the expenses when my Brother was Shereffe of Darbyshire.'Endorsed on the back of folio 6: 'The expenses att Somir assyses.'