Yerd

James Sympson, buryed in the yerd, xxvj may

"William Luff, fysherman, of the parishe of St Clementes in Hastyng . . . My body to be buryed in the church yerd of st Clementes” 17 Jun. 1545.

Robert Shertecliff for cheife rent of his tane yerd which he bought of my Lord pro dimidio anno xiid .

(15 aprill 1550 ) Such Napery as was in the church the same day one towell of holand of iij yerdes dimidium long & yerd brode one towell of calicow cloth / v yerdes a quarter long & dimidium yerd brode

It 1 towell diaper olde 2 yerds di. yerd brede

Itm. the 12 day of June 1545 he sent me a reckenyng by my sarvant Henry Setterfford of 25 seme Wellsche bordes at 6d the seame & of a brode yerd 3 qrs. of muster clothe at 4s the yerd & of a yerd of white kersy at 20d & 2 yerdes ½ Bristowe frise at 12d the yerd & of a yerd & I qr. russett kersy at 14d the yerd & for 4 yerdes 3 qr. grey frize at 6d the yerd.

To owd Tim's grave this neet aw bin, An' yerd him in't mysel.

and when she dies, I'm to pay for the yerding of her honestly, and a' the o'ercome is to be my ain; and by that time I'll be as rich es e'er my father was before me.

Forbes took him at the kirk of Forbes and struck off his head and caused yerd him behind the kirk, and sett his grave about with tippet stones, where it remains as yet ( 1580 ) to testifie the same.

Spalding recounts the incident: Alexander Gordon of Dunkyntie and George Gordon his eldest son, with some servants,being at the hunts in Glenelg o at the head of Strathaven, were upon the 19th August cruelly murdered by certain highland limmars, likeas the laird and his son in their defence slew three of thir lowns, but craftily they presently yerded two of them in a hole, and the third they left lying above the ground,