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he is to be paid.
And he is to have a man to help him the first 14 days, he paying him for one week, the Town for the other; also he is to lodge there except once a week, and to have a man to keep them every other sabbath day; and he to pay xs. a beast for every beast he shall lose; and to keep no cattle of any man, except the Townsmen give leave, upon the forfeiture of 5s. a head for every head he shall so keep.
The hog-keeper began to keep on the first of April, being the fifth day of the week, at 10s. per week so long as the Townsmen please to have him keep them; and he is to keep them at Rocky Meadow.
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1 It was customary to put one or more alewives in each hill of corn, and to use them otherwise for the enrichment of the soil. They were considered of so much value for this purpose as to be divided ratably. As late as June 10, 1649, it was “ordered, by the Townsmen, that all persons provide that their dogs may do no harm in corn or gardens, by scraping up the fish, upon the penalty of 3d. for every dog that shall be taken damage peasant, with all other just damages.”
2 “Town gates” then stood across Harvard Street, near Linden Street; across Brattle Street, probably near Ash Street; and across the street between the College yard and the Burial-place. Besides these, there were other gates to protect the cow-common; one across Kirkland Street, near Oxford Street; one across Garden Street, at the west end of Linnaean Street, and probably another at its east end, across North Avenue.
Boston. Houghton and Mifflin. 1877.
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