The Grassmen's Accounts for Durham St Giles listed on the Ancestry UK website, I found someone had been paid one shilling for a 'Jingle Pot' in 1837. Also listed are payments of four shillings for 'Two Hats & Two Ribbands to Run for at Bounders' and eleven shillings and sixpence for 'Ale, Bread, & Chease for Bounders', plus various other payments 'for Bounders'. Can anyone tell me what a jingle pot was or what/who bounders were, please? Mary Orton

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Orton" > Can anyone tell me what a jingle pot was or what/who bounders were, > please? Cant help with a jingle pot but a bounder was a tin miner. The name was coined from the means of marking the boundary of their mining plot. They stood and threw stones to mark the "bounds" of where they had the right to mine. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Keep Looking For Rainbows!! _--_|\ /Karen \ \ _.--._ / v Karen,