The details of a remedy “For a fallynge sickness” though possibly considered very efficacious are too repulsive for modern ears.

The following recipe, “For the making of Honey Cakes.  Certayne to be acceptable to y^e Fairy Folk,” is from the same source and is dated 1605:—­

“Taike of wilde honey thre ounce, of powder’d dill sede half ounce swete violet roote in fine powder 2 drachmes and six ounces of white wheaten meal which you will bringe to a light dowgh these thinges being all mixed together with faire water.  This done with a silver spune helde in ye hand of a sure maid one be you sure who hath not as yet owther yielded her own or do then or ever hath worn a garter band there bound by her lover for such be not fitt and proper maids for the maykinge of Fairy Cakes.  The Cakes thus mayde be they to the number of seven unbaked and mayde to the biggness of a marke.  These cakes thus mayde may be used by any one wishfull to intercede with or begge a boon from the Fairy folk alwaie being mindfull of this matter be she passing as a maid lett her not dare to mayke use of the cakes.”  Then follows the story of the evils that befell “one Sarah Heugh who well knowing herself alacking her maiden-head” tried to pass herself off to the fairies as a “true” maid.

Coming back to the registers of Pickering we find that on the 13th August 1694 Archbishop Sharp held a confirmation in the church and confirmed about a thousand persons.  The note is given in Latin as follows:—­

“Memorandum. 13^o die Augusti 1694 Johannes Divina providentia Eboracensis Archiepiscopus in ecclesia parochiali de Pickeringe Mille (aut eo circita) Baptizatos Xti Relligioni Confirmavit.

“Joshua Newton.

“Vicarius Ib.”

The parcel gilt Chalice still in use at Pickering Church belongs to this period.  It is dated 1613, and was made by Christopher Harrington, the goldsmith of York.  The paten was made in 1712 by Seth Lofthouse of London.

During the Commonwealth Levisham and Pickering parishes seem to have been joined from 1653 to 1661.  The Levisham burials and births appear in the Pickering registers.  Among the regular entries of deaths at Pickering are recorded:—­

“1619.  Jane Greenwood a stranger buried March. 1631.  Ellen Kirbye a poore Girle buried. 1634.  A poor traveller buried here the 3 day of
       June. 1636.  Gawen Pollard pauper Generosus 30th
       May.”

It would be interesting to know how a pauper came to be a “generosus.”

A bequest dated 1658 that seems to have been entirely forgotten appears in one of the registers.  It says:  “Be it Remembred that Robert Huggett of great Edston In the County of yourke Labourer did by his last will and Testamente bearinge date the Eleaventh day of January in the yeare of Grace one Thousande Sixe hundred fifty Eight give & bequeste unto Elizabeth Huggett his Mother in Law all that his Cottage or Tennemente att Pickeringe with all