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Abraham de la
Pryme
Abraham de la
Pryme was born on the Levels at Hatfield on 15th January 1671. The
following week, on 22 Jan 1671, he was Christened at the Sandtoft
French Protestant Chapel. He attended university before becoming
minister of the church at Thorne.
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From the age of
12 he kept a diary and through his records of the area around North
Lincolnshire, and particularly Thorne, Hatfield and Stainforth, we can
gain a valuable insight into life in Stainforth in the seventeenth
century.
He also wrote of his own life, at one time mentioning how he had
to watch two of his brothers die from a disease which caused their
skin to erupt in boils and produce a fever to burn them up. He died at
the age of 34, on 13th June 1704 and was buried at Hatfield church the
day after his death, on 14th June 1704.
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Hatfield
Church (St. Lawrence)
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In his translation of
the Domesday Book he wrote:
"In ye Conqueror's
survey, the town's name is writ Stanford, and it is said to be within
ye stoke of Conisburrow. In the time of King Edward The Confessor, it
was part of ye estate of Earl Harold, and was given by ye Conqueror to
his son in-law, William Earl of Warren. In it was seven sokemen with
four carucates and it had wood hard by it which was pannage for hoggs
and feeding ye tennents cattle one quarentine long and as much
broad."
"So that it
appears to have been a fine large town, bigger than Thorne was, which
had it five sokemen, and undoubtedly it continued a large place for
many ages later"
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Traders, the river Don
and the Market
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A cart similar to this, drawn by oxen or
horses, would have been used by traders to take their wares to
Doncaster Market
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"It was
made a market and a Fair Town by king Edward ye 3rd at the request of
Edward, Duke of York, unto whom the king had given this town amongst
the rest that belonged to the late Earl of Warren, so that this town
flourished mightily then, and became very rich, for it had an
advantage as few towns had, for besides it's market, which was
frequented by a great number of traders, there landed here all those
trafficking men that came from the Isle of Axholme, from Thorne, and
other places that were every Saturday bound for Doncaster Market, for
they never went higher up the river than this town, and these hired
horses from thence to carry their
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goods thither, so
that this town was by this means as good as if it had two markets a
week. Here was sold all sorts of wares, such as millstones,
grindstones, iron ware, lead, etc., in great quantities."
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