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Excerpt from Depositions Taken Before the Mayor Aldermen of Norwich, 1549 1567: Extracts From the Court Books of the City of Norwich, 1666 1688 Curious details as to the hiring of four hackney horses from the Windmill in London (the same house as that from which the brown bay gelding came) are given at p. 87, from which it would seem that the price was a shilling a day per horse, with a minimum of which would imply the average journey to and from London took nine days or more. As to the supply of the market there is not much, though it seems that Acle farmers sent into Lincolnshire to buy steers and oxen (p. But there are sidelights thrown on city regulations now forgotten, for example, on p. 25 we see that it was customary for a clerk of the market to enter every sack of grain sold there, and that it is probable that there was some premium paid to those who sent corn in to be sold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.