Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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FOR BURYINGE OF CORNE BY QUARTER-TAILE.

November the 6th, 1628, my father agreed with Henry Morris, John Bonwicke, Ralph Lambert, and Leonard Goodale, to threshe all the corne that yeare, and to have 6d. a quarter for barley, 4d. a quarter for oates, 7d. a quarter for pease, and 8d. a quarter for rye; and a threave of strawe in the weeke. Hee agreed with the threshers againe the 8th of November, 1629, to have 7d. a quarter for pease, 4d. a quarter for oates, 8d. a quarter for wheate and rye, 6d. a quarter for karley, and every one of them to have a threave [of] strawe a weeke, if they threshed the whole weeke, or else not. Hee agreed with the threshers the next yeare to thresh out his corne, and to have 5d. a quarter for barley, 4d. a quarter for oates, 8d. a quarter for wheate and rye, 7d. for pease, and 16d. a score for feyinge, and hee gave them for a godspenny 2d. a peece. Agreed another yeare with Thomas Styringe and Leonard Goodale to give them 5d. a quarter for barley, 4d. a quarter for oates, 6d. a quarter for pease, 8d. a quarter for wheate and rye, and each of them to have a stooke of strawe every weeke.

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• Agriculture (10) W/G ·
• Barley (5) W/G ·
• Driffield (12) W/G ·
• East Riding of Yorkshire (67) W/G ·
• 📌Elmswell, East Riding of Yorkshire (19) W/G ·
• Grain (6) W/G ·
• Oat (2) W/G ·
• Pea (2) W/G ·
• Rye (7) W/G ·
• Straw (1) W/G ·
• Threshing (2) W/G ·
• Wheat (14) W/G ·
• Yorkshire Wolds (23) W/G ·

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I think the red willow is Salix x rubra – red osier – rather than fragilis.

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