^{page 371 note a} Patent Roll, 37 Hen. VIII. m. 17.

^{page 372 note a} Norden's Survey of the Manor of Kirton in Lindsey, MS. Pub. Lib. Camb. Ff. 4, 30, foll. 48 b, 25 b, 49 b, 64 b, 66 b. Valor Eccl. iv. 133 i. 137 ii. The Antiquary, vol. xii. 207 iiGoogle Scholar.

^{page 372 note b} Young, Arthur, Line. Agriculture, 1799, p. 159.Google Scholar

^{page 373 note a} When the commons were unenclosed, it was necessary for every one who had a right of pasture to have a sheep-mark that could be easily distinguished from those of his neighbours. A letter written by archbishop Cranmer, probably in 1534, shews that these marks were sometimes used for other purposes. He says, “Touching my commission to take oaths of the king's subjects for his highness’ succession, I am by your last letters well instructed, saving that I know not how I shall order them that cannot subscribe in writing: hitherto I have caused one of my secretaries to subscr[ib]e for such persons, and made them to write their shepe mark, or some other mark as they can …… scribble. Now I would know, whether I shall, instead of subscription, take their seals.”—Cranmer, Miscellaneous Writings (Parker Soc.) 291.

^{page 374 note a} A leap or lepe is a long wicker basket employed for catching eels; the word is still in use. At the sessions held at Northallerton, July 12, 1610, Charles Adamson, of Normanby, was presented “for fishing contynually with leape and ell nettes.” North Biding Quarter Sessions Records, vol. i. p. 197Google Scholar, where there is a learned note on the word by the editor, Rev. J. C. Atkinson.

^{page 372 note b} The outfall of a ditch or drain, sometimes the drain itself. See the author's Manley and Corringham Glossary, sub voce.

^{page 372 note c} The meaning of this word is by no means clear. I have never met with it except here, in the court-rolls of the manor of Little Carlton in this county, wherein it occurs three or four times, e. g. in 1603, an order was made that “we do lay in payne that Thomas Overton shall make his bursell sufficient betwixt Edward Barker and himself, betwixt this and the feast of Saint Andrewe-next ensuing in pcane of x⁵.”

^{page 375 note a} Probably a wooden bridge. See , Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss, sub voce HebbleGoogle Scholar.

^{page 376 note a} Cf. Archaeologia, vol. XLVI. p. 382Google Scholar.

^{page 376 note a} Probably a foot-path.

^{page 377 note a} Butts for archery.

^{page 377 note b} Assign.

^{page 377 note c} Draught of oxen.

^{page 377 note d} Cf. the writer's Manley and Corringham Glossary, sub voce.

^{page 378 note a} Peas.

^{page 378 note b} The word elding, though nearly obsolete, is still in use to indicate small sticks used for lighting fires. The proverbial saying when something quite worthless is spoken of, that “it is neither good for hedge-stake nor elding,” will perhaps hinder it from falling into complete disuse. The word occurs in Scotland. Sir Walter Scott makes Willie of Westburnflat say, “Mony thanks to ye for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us.” Black Dwarf, chap. ix. Cf. Notes and Queries, 4th Series, vol. xi. p. 454. Atkinson's Cleveland Glossary, sub voce.

^{page 379 note a} A stook or stowk is ten sheaves of corn set with their heads together in a slanting position, for the purpose of drying, preparatory to their being stacked. The word is still in common use.

^{page 379 note b} A thick grassy sod.

^{page 379 note c} Grreenhoe is a sandhill near the middle of the moors. A farmhouse is now built thereon, “which is commonly known as Yaddlethorpe Grange.

^{page 380 note a} i. e. Yaddlethorpo.