ON THE COST OF CARRIAGE. 659 



the cost of land-carriage is that paid for the transmission of 

 the lead from Fordwich to Elham. In a direct line Fordwich is 

 14 miles from this village. The payment is 7*. j*/., that is at 

 the rate of is. iod. the fother. But in fact the journey taken 

 must have exceeded 18 miles, since the lead should, to judge 

 from the respective situation of the two localities, have been A 

 carried through Canterbury, and so have taken a considerable 

 turn to the right. If so, the rate is a little under id. the mile. 



Again, two carects of lead are carried, in 1371, from Windsor 

 to Odiham, the goods having been, no doubt, transmitted by 

 water from London. The reader will find, under the table of 

 Metals, that more lead was purchased in the same year at 

 Odiham, for the purpose of roofing parts of the castle buildings. 

 The charge for carriage is is. the carect. Now the distance 

 between Odiham and Windsor, in a direct line, is n \ miles. 

 The carriage paid is therefore exceedingly low, being, if we 

 take into account the windings of the road, not more than a 

 penny the ton or fother. So trifling indeed is the rate, that 

 one cannot help thinking that the cart and horses were taken 

 by an act of purveyance. As before, it is clear that the journey 

 was accomplished in one summer's day. 



The carriage of wine is another article for which evidence 

 is supplied, the quantity carried being the tun. In 1264 six 

 of such tuns are sent to Odiham Castle, then in the possession 

 of the Countess of Leicester. The charge is $s. 6d. the tun. 

 But a tun of wine is not much short of a ton in weight, if we 

 take it to contain 151 gallons. In a direct line Odiham is 

 32 miles distant from Southampton, and the payment is not 

 quite id. the tun, if we take into account the windings of the 

 road. 



Again, in the same year and for the same person, three tuns 

 are carried from Staines to Odiham, a distance of 11 miles in 

 a straight line. Here the charge is 4*. 6d. ; the same rate, or 

 nearly the same, as that at which the carriage was effected 

 between Southampton and Odiham. 



In 1298 two tuns of wine are carried from Henley to Oxford, 



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