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sent to John Tampany's wife. Two of these rings cost ir. 6d. 

 each, the third is. jd. 



There are a few entries of purses. In 1314 and 1326 we 

 read that these articles were made of silk. They are purchased 

 on the latter occasion in order to be presented by the monks of 

 Bicester to Geoffrey de Scrob's esquires. In 1387 another purse, 

 described as c de Roo,' is bought for iid. The zonae of 1346, 

 bought at Elham, are probably purses of a cheaper material. 

 A more costly pair of purses, described as c leather set in 

 silver,' are purchased in Oxford, the pair being sold for 15*. id. 

 The pair of budgets for carrying money, entered in the Preston 

 roll of 1268 on behalf of Isabella de Fortibus, were no doubt 

 more substantial articles. They cost 4*. ii^d. 



There are also a few entries of domestic furniture, as a 

 cacabus in 1364, which cost $s. zd.j a cacabus and cista in 

 1312, which were bought for 4$-. a coffer at Cheddington in 

 1311, for is. 2,d. j a urinal for id. in 1371; a two-gallon 

 tankard for 2^. in 1338 j a pair of tankards, each at 4</., in 

 1364 (these articles were probably hooped wooden goblets) ; 

 a hall table in 1363, for 13*. 4^.- a spit in 1391, at 2*. 6d. ; 

 a kitchen dresser in 1392, at 8d. In 1302 two silver plates 

 are purchased in order to fix in a mazer-bowl, perhaps that 

 some legend or name should be engraved, and ^d. is paid for 

 both. 



A ra-z,or is bought in 1331 for 6^., and a speculum to shave 

 by for id. in 1334. This could hardly have been glass, and 

 yet it is difficult to conceive any metallic material cheap 

 enough for so low a rate. Two portmanteaus, or saddle-bags, 

 are bought in London for is. 6d. and is. Sd. in 1355; and 

 a pair of pattens are returned from Southampton under the 

 year 1397. 



A few medicines are quoted. A clyster is bought for 4^. in 

 1320; and certain cough medicines, representing no doubt 

 medieval compounds, but which I cannot interpret, under the 

 names of c dyad rag wentum/ c dyapenydion/ and c penydes,' are 

 purchased. Certain other drugs, bought in 1387, are more 



