Subjects: Agricultural and other produce and its value
It may be that the value of produce as claimed in tithe causes is over-stated to increase the value of the claim, and often values were not precisely given.
Some definitions may also be useful:
Acre – the Cheshire acre was 10,240 square yards, as opposed to a statute acre of 4,840 square yards. The Cheshire acre was also used in parts of south Lancashire.
Thrave – twenty four sheaves.
Robert Holland, A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, (1885).
Barley and oats
EDC 5/13/3 – Robert Assheton, rector of Middleton, contra Giles Johnson.
Barley, oats and rye
EDC 5/13/1 – Roger Lever contra Roger Walmysley, senior and Roger Walmysley, junior.
Barley, oats and wheat
EDC 5/10/2 – Roger and Ellen Fulbeke and Nicholas Jacson, farmers of the tithes of Irton, contra John and Nicholas Sherween and Roland Hartley.
EDC 5/12/1 – Robert Assheton, rector of Middleton, contra John Aspenhawlgh, John Alens and John Bradley.
Milk, calves, lambs, wool, piglets, geese, eggs, hemp, flax, apples, pears, onions, leeks, garlic
EDC 5/11/1 – Sir Thomas Langton, farmer of the tithes of the chapelry of Low, contra Lawrence Banastre.
Oats
EDC 5/12/2 – Thomas Cuverden contra Richard Sherley.
Pasture, gorse, oats, peas, hay
EDC 5/10/1 – William Aldersey contra Thomas Wright and Richard Broster.
Piglets
EDC 5/1580/6 – John Vawdrey and Richard Vawdrey contra Richard Webb, William Janeon the elder and William Janeon the younger; a piglet valued at between 6d and 12d.
Wheat
EDC 5/1575/3 – John Vawdrey and Richard Vawdrey contra Ralph Calveley; a thrave of wheat valued between somewhere between 2s and 9s.