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1401. The entries give two registers of prices. Of these the most 

 important are from Heghtredebury. The bailiff buys a pair of wheels 

 at Devizes, which cost, with carriage to the manor, ys. ^d. He buys a 

 cart from the cooper, i.e. the body of the cart, for 3^. d. Next he 

 buys two ladders (scalae), which in this case mean side wings to the 

 cart, intended to extend its holding, for is. 2d. ; twelve strakes, which 

 are iron plates covering the woodwork, for us. 3^.; 120 great nails 

 at a little over a penny each, IQS. 6d.', twelve gropes, which have 

 been already explained (Vol. I, p. 544), which cost is. Sd. ; a long 

 hundred of small nails at 6d. to fasten the parts within, and to com- 

 plete the manufacture a pair of iron pincers at ^d. The whole cost of 

 the cart is therefore 38^. In the same year the Hornchurch bailiff 

 buys a cart body at the same rate, %s. d. He has wheels, perhaps 

 made on the farm, perhaps an old frame, but he buys clouts and nails 

 to put his cart into working condition for 5.?. 



1402. The Alton Barnes bailiff repairs two old wheels at a cost of 

 i os. He buys a pair of plain wheels for a dung-cart for Ss. These 

 are unshod wheels, and the price is high. He puts eight clouts on 

 them at a cost of is. \d., and fastens them with a hundred nails, which 

 he buys for %d. His dung-cart wheels cost him 9.?. yd. In the same year 

 the bailiff at Kington (probably also in Wilts) buys the ironwork for 

 a pair of wheels, bought for %s. 6d., at a cost of 1 8s. , the charge for the 

 wheels completed being 23^. 6d. -Comparing this purchase with that 

 of the other Wiltshire manor, it appears that the article is inferior in 

 its parts, and probably in its general quality. The two pairs of 

 Lullington wheels were probably, to judge by other entries from the 

 same estate, worth 8j-. id., and the plough wheels, as we see else- 

 where, were worth is. 2d. The same inference can be drawn in 1403, 

 from the same place, for, deducting 8.r. id., the two pairs of plough- 

 shares would be at is. $d. 



1404. A pair of wheels called 'bryddes' is bought at Hornchurch 

 for IQS. lod. j sixteen clouts cost 3^. 2d., and a hundred great cart 

 nails I2S. %d. The total charge is therefore 25.$-. %d. The word 

 bryddes is frequently used in the Hornchurch accounts, and is some- 

 times explained as wheels, sometimes as a cart. A pair of wheels, 

 here without fittings, is bought at Lullington for 4^., the ordinary 

 price. A similar purchase is made next year at the same place for 

 3*. yd., and another pair of bryddes is bought at Hornchurch in 1 406 

 for 7^., the clouts and nails to which cost 6s. 2d. } half the price of the 

 purchase in 1404. A pair of wheels is bought at Bicester for 3.$-. 2d. 

 These are plainly unshod. I do not find ' bryddes ' in the glossaries. 



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