Note 78 — APPENDIX
Reading edition
This singular payment of a portion of an animal seems to have been common. I find that the rental of the Bishop’s Mills (or as they are described “The Bischopis Mylne,” near Elgin Cathedral), in A.D. 1565, included, amongst other items, three fowls, four dozen of capons, three sheep, three lambs, one pig, and three quarters of a mart (or bullock)!