Weardale

Bolden book is much, much more detailed about the lives of peasants.

So we get to hear how many chickens, eggs, some of the peasants of Weardale owe the bishop.

we find that, for example, three woodturners, that's people using a pole lathe, three woodturners have to turn 3,100 bowls for the bishop before they can make any for themselves every year.

So, you know, it is really, the level of oppressive labour and taxation is just really shocking.

However, the writer explains that the moors were not well suited to that sort of thing due to the rough, uneven surface of the ground.

I sent my gun, according to previous agreement, several weeks before I left home, and heard of their safe arrival in Weardale where I departed.

My friend, I knew, would provide plenty of dogs, and therefore, under these circumstances, I had only myself to convey to the appointed spot, and this I intended to do upon the back of a stout pony, which I had so familiarized to the gun that he would stand like a rampart when I fired from his back.

The following day I determined not to only ride to the shooting ground, but to take my pony on the moors.