"Jowsey's Bill for harpoon stocks and seal clubs, £3 2 8
To ye master to get hands in Shetland, 21 0 0
To ye sailors to drink as customary ye first
voyage, 1 1 0
A crimp shipping seamen, 0 6 0
Then in 1776 comes:--
"By ye crimp's bill Sept. ye 20th, 225 0 6
Each voyage meant an advantage to Pickering, for it supplied the salt pork for the sailors. These are some of the entries:--
"1776. Paid for piggs at Pickering, £65 5 0
1777. Do. do. 59 19 6
Tom Dobson for carriage of do., 1 11 0
Window broke by firing a signal gun for
sailing, 0 4 6
1778. Cheeses at Pickering, £ 2 10 9
Paid for Piggs at Pickering, 55 14 5
Tom Dobson for carriage of piggs, 1 3 0
1779. James Gray's lodging ashore time of ye smallpox, 0 15 0
Paid for piggs at Pickering, 51 2 0
Paid at Saltergate for boys eating, etc., 0 4 6
One imagines that these boys were in charge of the pigs. But they must have been pork by that time for the next entry is:--
"To Tom Dobson for carriage of pork, £1 16 0
and another entry mentions that it was packed in barrels at Pickering.
"1780. Grundall Saltergate for lads eating, etc., £0 8 6
Then comes a gap of about eight years, several pages having been torn out.