Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . olls of thissame year (1304), at the Public Record Office, will be found anaccount of divers victualls, arms, etc, bought for the furnishingof the castles of Chester, Flint and Rhuddlan : the following arethose for Flint Castle :— Flint.—40 qrs. corn, 2 hogsheads wine, 39 qrs. malt, li qrs. i bushelpeas, ID carcases meat, 30 flitches bacon, 200 dried fish, 3 mays- of herrings,7 qrs. salt, ffenu?;^3 i6s. lod., one breastplate, 5 cuirasses, 6 old ironskull-caps, one bascinet and coif, 7
Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . olls of thissame year (1304), at the Public Record Office, will be found anaccount of divers victualls, arms, etc, bought for the furnishingof the castles of Chester, Flint and Rhuddlan : the following arethose for Flint Castle :— Flint.—40 qrs. corn, 2 hogsheads wine, 39 qrs. malt, li qrs. i bushelpeas, ID carcases meat, 30 flitches bacon, 200 dried fish, 3 mays- of herrings,7 qrs. salt, ffenu?;^3 i6s. lod., one breastplate, 5 cuirasses, 6 old ironskull-caps, one bascinet and coif, 7 old targes and shields, i springall (forhurling stones), 2 crossbows and 2 winders, i wooden crossbow on two feet,13 single-foot crossbows, and 1000 arrows. Edward I. died on the 7th of July, 1307. In the previous year(1306) it appears that one William Broun was appointed^ Con-stable of Flint and Mayor of the Borough. Louvers ; windows, or open windows. A mays is an old measure : 3 herrings make a cast,—204 castsmakea mays. Therefore the garrison of Flint Castle was supplied with
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