Addenda, Elizabeth - Volume 9: November 1559

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1870.

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'Addenda, Elizabeth - Volume 9: November 1559', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3 With Addenda 1547-65, (London, 1870) pp. 493. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/edw-eliz/addenda/1547-65/p493 [accessed 20 April 2024]

November 1559

Nov. 1. 35. Note by Hen. Saville, surveyor, that the farm of the old park of Wakefield, part of the Queen's duchy of York, granted to John Paston by Henry VIII., is now in tenure of Sir Thos. Gargrave, on rental of 10l. That Paston has also the keeping and palistership of the park, fee 5l. 1s. 3d. That the park is 328 acres; 20 might be made coarse meadow, worth 2s. an acre; 100 stony or sandy, now worth 4d., and the rest worth 16d. That there is no wood but 370 oaks; 200 of them old and rotten, 160 worth 20d. a piece for fire wood, and 10 young trees worth 3s. 4d. each. That the pale and lodges are in decay, and the carriage of the wood from Wakefield woods, a mile off, will cost 20l. That there are 80 deer in the park, and that New park and Sandall park, in the same lordship, are replenished with deer. [Parchment, Latin and English.]
Nov. 20. 36. Confirmation, by the Queen, of previous charters granted to the Pewteres' Company of London. [1 sheet, imperfect.]
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