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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 by Various
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Paid to fourscore and sixteen _spreaders of hay_ for one day's wages,
whereof fourscore received each per day 1-1/2d, and each of the others
2d., l2s. 8d.

Paid to 160 spreaders of hay for their wages, Sunday and Monday, 16s.
6d.

_Necessaries._

For six carts, each with three horses, hired to carry the hay from the
meadows to the castle of Rothelan, for one day, 6s. 10d.

For the carriage of turf, with which the house was covered in which the
hay was placed, 1s. 5d.

For an iron fork bought to turn the hay, 3d.

For making a ditch about the house where the said hay was put, 1s. 8d.

For putting and piling up one rick of hay in the house, 1s. 8d.

Wages of two turf-cutters, seven days, at 5d. per day, 5s. 10d.

For the carriage of turves to cover the king's kitchen, 7s. 6d.

For twenty-two empty casks, bought to make paling for the queen's court
yard, 18s. 4d.

To Wildbor, the fisherman, receiving 10d. per day, and his six
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