Records of the Halifax Waits
| 1608 | 4th week August – payd which was given to the wattes of Hallefax by mr maiores appoyntment | xijd | Newcastle, Chamberlains’ Account Books TW: 541/21, f243v | From REED Newcastle |
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| 1608-1609 | March – Item the 3 day to the waits of Hallifax at mr major commande | ijs vjd | Carlisle, Chamberlains’ Accounts CCRO:/CA/4/1, [38v-39v] | Cumbria Record Office CA/4/9, From REED, Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire. |
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| 1609-1610 | 15th March – Item given to the Hallifax fidlers by my master’s appointment | xijd | Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe | From REED: Lancashire. |
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| 1613-1614 | 16-27 May – given to the waites of Halifax | xijd | Carlisle, Chamberlains’ Accounts CCRO: CA/4/1, [f 4v] | Cumbria Record Office CA/4/9, From REED, Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire. |
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| 1615-1616 | after 8 November – Item given the waytes of Hallifax | ijs | Household accounts of Thomas Walmesley 1. LRO: DDPt 1, f [48] | From REED: Lancashire. |
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| 1617-1618 | geauen to the wates of hellefax | xijd | Carlisle, Chamberlains’ Accounts CCRO:CA/4/2 f [42]* (Disbursements) | Cumbria Record Office CA/4/9, From REED, Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire. |
| geauen to musetions of hellefax at the dinner at Besse Parker | ijs | f [53v]* | Cumbria Record Office CA/4/9, From REED, Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire. | |
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| 1627-1628 | Item given to the waits of Hallifacke at mr maior command | 0-1-0 | Carlisle, Chamberlains’ Accounts CCRO: CA/4/2, f [138] (Disbursements) | Cumbria Record Office CA/4/9, From REED, Cumberland, Westmorland, Gloucestershire. |
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| 1628-1629 | 11 Aprille – Item given the wates of Hallifax the xjth of Aprille | xijd | Household Accounts of Thomas Walmesley 9. LRO: DDPt 1, f [14] | From REED: Lancashire. |
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| 1630-1631 | 4 March – giuen the wayetes of Hallifax | xijd | Household Accounts of Thomas Walmesley 11. LRO:DDPt 1, f [13v] | From REED: Lancashire. |
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| 1633 | 4 December – Warden paid ijs to Halifax waites | Coventry, Chamberlains’ and Wardens’ Account Book II CRO: A7(b) | Coventry City Record Office (CRO), from REED Coventry. | |
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Compiled by Pamela Radford.
At Halifax, one of the waits died in 1696. (O. Heywood, Diary, ii, p. 180)
[“Notes and Queries” (1904) page 504, with original source cited.]