I was leafing through my granny's Bedside Anthology of Sussex when I spotted the following extract from the Journal of Rev Giles Moore Rector of Horsted Keynes, Sussex (in Sussex Archaelogical Collections):
1676-7. 13th Octr. I marryed Henry Place and Mary Holden, my two servants, and spent at theyr wedding 20s.; I gave the fiddlers 1s., I also gave them a large cake, all theyr fewell, and the use of my house and stables for 2 dayes, with a quart of white wine, being in all not less than 40s., or one yeares wages. on 6th of Feby. following shee was delivered of a daughter, so that the whoare went but 15 weeks and 5 dayes after her marriage.
1676-7. 13th Octr. I marryed Henry Place and Mary Holden, my two servants, and spent at theyr wedding 20s.; I gave the fiddlers 1s., I also gave them a large cake, all theyr fewell, and the use of my house and stables for 2 dayes, with a quart of white wine, being in all not less than 40s., or one yeares wages. on 6th of Feby. following shee was delivered of a daughter, so that the whoare went but 15 weeks and 5 dayes after her marriage.
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