r omitting
to preach sermons and for not properly instructing the people and as will
be seen in the next chapter he appears to have been a most reprehensible
character.

At the same time as this "Richarde Nicoll, Widow Kitchin, Robert Skayles,
John Flaworthe, and widow Shorpshier are presented for deteyning the
clerkes wages/ Elizabeth Dodds ffor having a childe in adultery withe one
Anthonye Boyes, which Boyes is now fledd/ William Steavenson ffor a
slanderer. And also Frances Fetherston the wif of Robert Fetherston for a
scowlde/ Richard Hutchinson for harboring a woman which had a childe
begotten in fornicacion They saie that [_blank_] Lavrock and [_blank_]
Wilson did by the apoyntment of Richard Parkinson there master carrye
turffes in to the house vpon the Sabboth daie The rest is all well."

The rigid observance of the Sabbath as a day of rest is vividly shown by
this last complaint, and at Allerston we find that "Isabell Rea wiffe of
William Raie" was reprimanded--"ffor workyng on the Sabbothe daie viz't
for washing and dressing of hempe at the hemppe pitt vpon Sondaie was
seavenyght/"

In 1592 appears the following/ "The chancell of Pickering in decaie bothe
the windowes and the leades and to be repaired as we suppose by Mr Deane/
[The Dean of York] Mr Deane for want of the quarter sermons and for not
geving the xl^tie part of his lyving of the parsonage of Pickering to the
poore people of the said parishe Agnes Poskett wif of William Poskett of
Pickering for a scold."

In the following year we find presented at Pickering "Elizabeth Johnson
wif of Frances Johnson of Kinthorpe for an obstynate recusant in not
comyng to the churche to here dyvyne service by the space of ij^o yeares
last past and more/ Anne Browne wiffe of William Browne of Pickering for
an obstinate recusant in not commyng to the churche to here dyvyne service
and so haithe done by the space of ij^o yeares and more/ Rauffe Hodgeson
of Pickring for an obstinate recusant and haithe absented him self ffrome
the churche by the space of ij'o yeares and more. Anne Clerke being in
John Wright his house of Blansbye and haithe meate and drinke there, ffor
not commyng to the church to here dyvyne service by the space of half a
yeare/ Rychard Hutchinson sonne of William Hutchinson of Kinthorpp ffor
absenting him self from the churche by the space of halff a yeare and
more/. And he is excommunicate."

Elizabeth Dobson was presented in 1600 as "a slaunder