John Ripley, Lonsdale (Ayton)

%a href="http://greatayton.wikidot.com/enclosure">http://greatayton.wikidot.com/enclosure%/a>. Two other farmers implicated in the dispute did make affidavits as to what other crops they had grown in recent years. John Ripley of Lounesdale [i.e. Lonsdale], who farmed on the acid uplands to the extreme east of the parish, declared that in 1615 he had produced only 'ninetie stokes of rye', together with six wain loads of hay, to feed his 45 sheep and four cows. At the other end of the parish, on the fertile boulder clay to the north-west, John Aynsley of Tunstall admitted to averaging 60 stooks of wheat, 100 of oats, 30 of barley and 20 of 'masslegen'[i.e. maslin – rye mixed with wheat] during the years 1610-16. He said that a stook of wheat was worth 2/-; of rye, 18d.; of barley, 14d.; of masslegen, 20d.