400 ARTICLES EMPLOYED IN AGRICULTURE. 



1402. The price of iron (IQS. the cwt.) is like all other prices high. 

 Such a price as that paid for iron in mass at York is reached twenty 

 years later, next in 1441, and not again till after 1540. In 1419 it 

 is 6s., in 1421, 4s. lod. Steel is also dear. It is is. 6^d. the stone. 

 In 1424 it is 9|</., in 1444, gd. 



1406-9. The price of wrought iron is very high, much that is 

 purchased being merely iron bars. 



1433) etc - The wrought iron of Jarrow, &c., must be understood to 

 be iron rods, i.e. blooms or masses partially manufactured. 



1446. The entry of the hammer from York means that the instru- 

 ment weighed half a cwt., was made of Spanish iron, and that 

 the cost of the material and its manufacture was 5^. lod. 



1457. Iron is generally very cheap. 



1461-64. Prices are continuously low. 



1467. These charges for the Prior of Waynflete's tomb were in- 

 curred by the order of the founder of Magdalen College. They 

 represent, as the price of iron was low, very elaborate work, such as 

 indeed still remains in specimens of medieval iron-work. Some of the 

 work is done on cheaper terms. 



1470. Iron is again very cheap. 



1472. Iron and steel are equally cheap. 



1476. These are charges incurred for the iron-work in King's 

 College Chapel. The building was stinted, but not wholly stopped, 

 during Edward the Fourth's reign. 



1483-7. Iron is again cheap. But the iron-work at Windsor, 

 ranging from 23^. 6d. the cwt. to 25^. nd., must have been very 

 elaborate, being nearly five times the price of the raw material. 



1516-18. The price of iron is still low. 



1528. I am unable to define 'flagg' iron. 



1 533-35- Iron is rising in price. 



1548. Iron begins to be very dear. 



1562. All kinds are doubled in price. 



1582. The variety in price represented by the purchases on the 

 Shuttleworth estate are probably due to varieties in quality, the highest 

 being foreign, the lowest English. 



Steel is also called Osemond. It is bought by the stone, the 

 garb, the barrel, the burden, the sheaf (probably the same as the 

 garb), the wisp, perhaps the same measure (for these terms are 

 employed at Sion only), the gad and the pound. Steel is not 



