The remains of a primitive stone coffin were discovered, with the characteristic axework peculiar to the period. The further discovery of the remains of the Saxon cross bears out the late Mr. Earwaker's contention as to the existence of a church in Macclesfield in Saxon times. THE HE Dean and Canons of Manchester have in their muniment room a document of considerable interest naming fields, several being still open and cultivated in doles or strips, in and near Manchester, Salford, and Hulme, and the crops they bore in the year 1584. The "book" also extended to Newton and Cleyden (the north-east part of Ancoats), but those parts of the book appear in the History of Newton Chapelry for the Chetham Society. The account shows how the tithe surveyor, on behalf of the warden and fellows of the College of Christ in Manchester, went round those townships, the tithes of which were not leased out to third parties, but were retained in hand, and how in each field the surveyor noted the number of toshers or tosses, sheaves, hattocks, and riders of wheat, barley, oats, beans, and pease, noting them by scores, and reckoning 120, or i.e., six score, according to his system of notation, to the hundred. His spelling is erratic, and his writing is very puzzling in many places. 20 vj The names of persons and places here mentioned usefully supplement information contained in the Records of the Manchester Court Leet and those of the Salford Portmote. A boke [of eight foolscap half sheets stitched down the centre to form a narrow book of sixteen pages], made the xxvjth daie of July, of or vewing corne in Manchester, Salford, [and] Hollme near Manchester, 1584. A Ryder [contains] sheves x; a hatack viii sheves. CORNE VEWED IN MANCHESTER, 1584. 20 Note; in thes boke [six score] to the hondeyreth. vj Mr Strangues, [Strangeways], 71 R$ [Riders] of weat, [iiij to shere, cancelled]. Mr Bagulaie, 118 R$ barley. Glover weido [Widow Glover], 88 qt b. [quarters of barley?] the back ye barne. Wydo Prowdgloue, 42 R$ & a hattack b[arley]. Wyllyam Radclyffe, 62 & 20 tossers. Glouer, 86 barly there in the Akers [St. Ann's Square]. George Pendelt [Pendleton], 80 barly lackg. 2. Wydo gee, 81 Riders barly thear. R$ 6. Mr Tettelow, 69 Riders barly. R$ 3. Mr Radclyffe, in a dole ouer agenst Chrester Rothwell [Birlaman for Deansgate in 1565], Ryders barly xxxvijtie [read seven and thirtie]. Mr Radclyffe, in his Lyttell crofte, near Braberst crofte, Ryders & one hattack [iij Riders cancelled] barly. 20 iiij John Radclyfe, in his crofte apon the back of horases 20 [Horrox's], Riders & one hattacks, barlie. viij Rychard Hunt, in the gret fylde [the Great Hulme 20 Meadow?] next Alperd [Alport], xiij & xiij otts [oats] & a hattack. 20 iiij Ryc. Huus [Shepley? cancelled] in Tettelow [Chetham, or in Tetlow's field?] over ye way, & xj Riders barly. Thoms Brownesword, [v Ryders cancelled] of weatte shorne Riders & j. 20 V 20 vj R$ 2. Henry Pendelton, Riders & iij of weate shorne, & lyke 12 shevs. Rs 10.) 20 Riders [to Mr Hunt, next hes barne in ye fylde, viij lead] & iiij thithes yt wer forth [taken away]. 20 xj Mr Wm Radclyffe, in the becke howse fylde ; & x Ryders of barly. Rs 13. Mr Radclyffe, at the ouderth hede [Old Earth Head] Riders & xviij of ottes. 20 vj Ridgefield, Thomas Becke, [Ryc: Hunt cancelled], near the Sowsehilles [otherwise Sot's Hole, near Deansgate] [is tithed?] wth wydo Glouer. Mrs Becke, apon the backe of her barne, otts & a hattock. 20 V & ii Ryders Rs 4. Ryc9 Haryson, near adjoyning, a dole xlvj Riders barly. 20 Alexander pater by Mr Tettelow Riders barly & I Rider. vj Thos. Bamford, by Mr Wylsōs [Wilson's], a dole b[arley] xlxvij Riders. 20 Thos Barford, next adjoyning, & xiij of barly. iiij vx. [wife of] Raffe Prowdglou, over agenst ye the sowthe, lxxvij b[arley]. [Mr Toged [Toogood?] in the heathes, cancelled]. [Raffe prodlow [Proudlove], lxiij b[arley] interlined]. James Radclyffe, next adjoyning, & x of otts. Counted by Sh[eppard] to ffraunces Hough, next [& cancelled]. Raffe Rodlaie, next adjoining, j Rs xiiij Ridders. vx: ffrauncis pendelt, by grondey's 20 Antony Mosslaie, i; xij of barly, & som tossers. xij Ralfe Headley [?], lxxiij of otts. This side ye howse. Robert Radlaie, near his howse, of otts shorne, & vij R benes. 20 vx Wyllyam Chettam, & xiij Riders otts. viij James Lankesshere, xl Riders ottes, in howse. vx Thos Brydocke, lxj Ryders of otts, & xlvj of barly, shorne. Mr Strags [Strangeways], in his near felde, fyrst in the boke, Ryders of barly. 20 j Mr Sheperd zi, in a dole in his meydo, of ottes. Mr Strages [Strangeways], 1 Ryders otts in the Cawsey [site of the old Roman Road, Broughton]. R$ 39. Mr Strangues, in the Oldescroft, Riders of otts. 20 vij 20 vij 20 xxiiij & iij Mr Sheperd, Riders of otts, aft" I counted them. Thom Brownesword, a dole of otts, 20 & iiij Ryders, Ryders in bothe, & som tosses, above xij. V Thos Brownesword, in the same fylde, ij dole of barly. Thos Brownesword, a lyttell' fyld, all otts, 20 & iiij Ryders. V Mr Stragues, vnder James Hyrstes howse, xij° Ryders, lackg. one of barly. R$ 2. Cleg, apon the backe of Edwrd gibson's howse, XXV eightlyigh,* [of thrashed corn?] and one of iiij sheves. *There were two words very similar to each other, which became gradually confused in the minds of the people. One was the middle English eyztyndele, which, in the Promptorium Parvulorum, is explained by the English and Latin words, "mesure, satum," meaning a measure of eight pounds of meal or eight gallons of corn; and this word, which contained a guttural, was at times spelt aghendole, haughendole, haughendo, |