History of Newcastle and Gateshead . rses meat, 5s.; for washing and starching of their bands,shirts, and linen, . . hose, 6s. 8d. Sum paid to John Carr for theircharges one day and two nights is 5/. i8s. 8d. Further expenditure was made in presents :— For four gallonsand three quarts of sack, 19s.; for Rhenish wine, 6s.; paid fo? sevenpottles of claret wine, i6d. per pottle, 9s. 4d.; for two loaves of sugarweighing iZYo lb., 2s. per lb., 37s. Sum total paid for wine and sugarsent as a present to the two noblemen is 3/. iis. 4d. Besides whkhthere are payments for a banquet to the two noblemen
History of Newcastle and Gateshead . rses meat, 5s.; for washing and starching of their bands,shirts, and linen, . . hose, 6s. 8d. Sum paid to John Carr for theircharges one day and two nights is 5/. i8s. 8d. Further expenditure was made in presents :— For four gallonsand three quarts of sack, 19s.; for Rhenish wine, 6s.; paid fo? sevenpottles of claret wine, i6d. per pottle, 9s. 4d.; for two loaves of sugarweighing iZYo lb., 2s. per lb., 37s. Sum total paid for wine and sugarsent as a present to the two noblemen is 3/. iis. 4d. Besides whkhthere are payments for a banquet to the two noblemen at house, 36s. lod. Another item in the accounts is the payment of his quarterage to Mr. Pearson, preacher of Gods word —, the Rev. William Pear-son, afternoon lecturer at St. Nicholas. On the 13th of May in thefollowing year Mr. Pearson was married at St. Johns church toElizabeth, daughter of Vicar Holdsworth, deceased, and, as recordedin 1596, undertook the charge of educating Richard Holdsworth,-thevicars Head of Middle Stiieet, Xewcastle, in 1797. 132 NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD, [1599. 1599. 41 and 42 Elizabeth. Bishop of Durham—Toby Mathew. Mayoy and Sheriff of Neivcastle till Michaelvias :— George Farnaby, Mayor, and William Warmouth, Sheriff. Mayor and Sheriff elected at Michaelmas :—Mayor—William Jenison. Arms : As in 1596. Sheriff—James Clavering. Arms : Quarterly or and gules, a bend sable. LAGUE lingered about the town and suburbs, and thecorporation appear to^have appointed an officer, knownin after years as the towns physician, to attend uponthe sick poor. In the municipal accounts for Apriloccurs the item, paid to Robert Smith, physician,for one quarter fee, due at Candlemas last, 5/. A surgeon was inreceipt of a fee seven years earlier for similar services. On page 75we find John Coulson, surgeon, obtaining, by grant of the mayor, 40s.,his accustomed fee for helping to cure the maimed poor folk. Theforegoing is, however, the first r
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