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represent intrinsically the equivalent of about 12s., 15s., and £1 

 of our present money ; and very fair copper saucepans can be 

 obtained for those prices now. The value of copper would seem 

 to have varied somewhat in the same proportion in which the 

 values of gold and silver have varied. On this subject we may 

 quote from a recognized authority. Professor Thorold Eogers, in 

 his work on prices, speaking of copper and its compounds in the 

 fourteenth century, says (1., 602) : — 



" Their use was chiefly that of domestic utensils. Every farmhouse of any 

 importance had one or two brass or copper pots, a jug and basin of the same 

 material, used apparently for washing hands, and a few dishes, the last being 

 generally of more slender construction." 



He adds that the general price of pots was about Is. o\d. per 

 gallon of their capacity : and mentions that in 1363 a 4-gallon pot 

 was bought at Is. 3d. per gallon, a posnet, holding one gallon, at 

 Is. 8(f., and two patellse, holding three gallons, and one gallon, at 

 M. and 4d respectively : and in 1348 a 4-gallon pot, weighing 

 231bs., cost 4s. &d. 



Alice Barbor's patellse were evidently more substantial articles 

 than those thus purchased in 1363 ; though it is not clear whether 

 they were bowls or dishes, nor of what material they were made. 



[ will finally give an account of the bells attributable to John 

 Barbor, and mention that in this part of my paper I have received 

 most material assistance from my friend Mr. H. B. AYalters, who 

 is the chief authority on the bells of the West of England. 



First among John Barbor's bells we ought to mention that at 

 Chitterne, in Wiltshire, which bears his name. The inscription 

 may be represented as follows : — 



-l-JHON O BAR : BVR O ^lE O IMADE 

 The letters are all Gothic majuscules and each letter is surmounted 

 by a crown. The letters and stops are placed at intervals varying 

 from about one to two inches. The initial cross has four laige 

 fleurs de lys in saltire and four small ones at the extremities of 

 a slender vertical cross. The circular stop has six double segments 

 running round it with six similar spokes, a figure easily described 



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