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ist January    ba.d weather
There has been such great ram da\ and night that no one can
travel on the roads either by coach or on horseback
%tb January    the iate intended rising
Some of those charged with the late intended rising in
Oxford being examined reveal that the matter arose concern-
ing enclosures, for many in those parts ha\e enclosed the
common fields One of them having complained to his fellow
hoi* hardly he maintained his wife and seven children with
bread and water this hard year, the other made answer,' Care
not for work, for we shall have a merrier world shortly there
be lusty fellows abroad and I will get more, and I will work one
day and play the other' Saying also that there was once a
rising at Enslow Hill when they were entreated to go down,
and after hangediike dogs, but now would they never yield but
go through with it Servants were so held in and kept like
dogs that they would be ready to cut their masters' throats
There was a mason in those parts who could make balls of wild-
fire and had a shng to fling the same whereby he could fire
houses as occasion served. When they had risen they would
go to my Lord Norns's in Ricott and get wine and beer, and
tale two of his brass ordnance and set them upon coach wheels
and so proceed
nth January the victuals of the soldiers in ireland.
The soldier in Ireknd when he is victualled from her
Majesty's store hath m each week four flesh days and three fash
days On the former receiveth fer Hum loaf bread, li Ib ,
beer, one pottle, beef, salt, 2 Ib, or if it be fresh, 2$ Ib,
being without legs and neocs On fish days, loaf bread, i£ Ib.,
beer, one pottle, butter, i Ib , or instead thereof cheese, I Ib,
or 8 herrings per dtem.
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