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In the year 1291 we find clinch-nails at Pevensey at 7\d. the 

 hundred, purchased to mend the boat. 



Gad-nails are quoted three times in 1291 at 4^., the locality 

 being Hampstede; in 1334 at Oxford, the price being 84. ; in 

 1335 at Oxford also, at is. the hundred. It is said that the 

 term still exists, and denotes a very strong and heavy nail. 



Lattice-nails are found twice, in 1303 and 1336, being 

 bought on each occasion at i\d. the hundred. 



I can give no explanation of hepe-nails, which are quoted 

 three times, in 1331, 1331, 1335? at id.^ 4^., and again at id. 

 the hundred. The term appears to be local, for it is found at 

 no place besides Cuxham in Oxfordshire. 



Splents, or splentyn-nails, are occasionally found. Before the 

 Plague they are worth, on an average of thirteen entries, a 

 little less than id. the hundred. After that time, if we can 

 rely on the two quotations which are given, the price is $\d. 



Seeling-nails are given five times, and always at South- 

 ampton. It is possible that the term denotes such nails as 

 were in use for the lathing of ceilings to rooms. These nails 

 are always found with lath-nails, and vary in price from 3^., at 

 which they are quoted only once, to if</. the hundred. They 

 are thus more than double the price of lath-nails. All the 

 entries precede the date of the Plague. 



Window-nails are quoted both early and late, and if they 

 were throughout of the same character, exhibit a rise in price 

 which is even more striking than that by which other articles 

 of this kind are affected. Two entries, at i\d. and 3^., precede 

 the Plague; but in 1370 they are bought for the castle at 

 Odiham at 7^., and again at the same place, in 1376, at 4^. ; 

 at London, in 137 8, at rather more than 5^.; and at Heyford 

 Warren, in 1386, at $d. 



Once at Odiham, in 1372, window-nails described as 

 c tinned' are bought at is. the hundred. Tinned nails are 

 quoted before at Oxford in 1346, the price being 3^. 



Tac-nails, with which may be identified tackets, are bought 

 before the Plague at prices ranging from id. to id. 



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