Note 386 — Chapter IX
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Thus there was a disputed liability with regard to Margery Pearson, and she was to be relieved in accordance with the decision of Sir Richard Etherington and Tho. Dearle, Esq., Ib. vol. I. p. 12.
Elizabeth Scotson of Melmerby is to be provided for by the High Constable and the churchwardens and overseers of the parish, Ib. p. 97. See also pp. 115, 117, 124, 125 &c.
The Treasurer for the hospitals appears all through these records. In 1608 the payments made by Mr Brigges, Treasurer for the Langbaurgh district, were as follows:—
£ s. d.
The Hospitall juxta Malton 13 6 8 per ann.
Hospitall of Sharbrough 5 0 0
The Marshallsey 20 0
Summa 19 6 8
At the same time another treasurer for the district distributed pensions to eleven soldiers amounting altogether to £28. 6s. 8d. Quarter Sessions Records, North Riding, vol. II. p. 257.