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| The final paragraph records that those present have agreed to pay the gentleman that delivered the venison the sum of ten shillings in two crowns. A crown was a five shilling piece in the days before decimal currency. |
| Minutes of the York Corporation, from the Corporation House Book, of 1542. York City Archives B.16, f.19, by permission of York City Archives. |
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