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riding purposes. The shoes of horses used in husbandry are 

 very much cheaper, being worth often no more than %d. the 

 dozen, and must therefore have been very thin plates or tips of 

 metal, each weighing less than half a pound. Horse-shoe nails 

 are from i\d. to 3^. the hundred. 



SADDLES, &c. The entries of these articles are very 

 numerous, and, as the price varies much, must have been of 

 very different qualities. A saddle and bridle are bought at 

 Jarrow in 1410 for los. In the next year the Finchale monks 

 pay 13.$-. ^d. for a new saddle, bridle, bit, and girths, and in 



1412 Coldingham priory gives 13^-. for a sacristan's saddle. In 



1413 a saddle at Oxford costs us. In 1432 Finchale buys a 

 saddle for the prior for 12^. id. Two are bought by Netley 

 Abbey in 1457 at 14^. id. each, and in 1470 a saddle and 

 bridle are bought in London for us. lod. In 1484 a saddle, 

 bit, reins, and head-piece, bought by Magdalen College, 

 Oxford, cost 24^. In 1489 King's College gives us. 4d. fora 

 'summer saddle.' In 1516 a saddle, bridle, and trappings cost 

 at Hulme, in Norfolk, los. In 1540 the saddle and trappings 

 for the President of Magdalen (John Hygden, whom Wolsey 

 put at the head of his foundation), cost us. These are the 

 highest prices paid before 1541. 



In 1423 a servant's saddle costs 6^. 8d. ; in 1452 a saddle and 

 bridle are bought for 5.$-. ; in 1454 for js. In 1456 the bursar's 

 saddle costs 5^. ; a saddle and bridle 5^. id. in 1463 ; in 1468 

 two are bought at 4^. each. A packsaddle in 1481 costs 5.$-. \d. 

 In 1503 a saddle costs $s. ^d. at Oxford; three saddles and 

 bridles in 1504 are bought at 6s. $d. each, by Oriel College ; 

 in 1505 one is bought at is. at Oxford. In 1506 a saddle 

 and bridle cost 6s. 8d. ; in 1509 two are 4^. and $s. ^d. In 

 1509, one is at 5.$-., and two at 4.$-. 6d. In 1510 a saddle and 

 bridle are bought for 6s. id., and two saddles at js. id. In 

 1520 three are bought at 4^-., and one at 3^. 4^. In 1520 a 

 saddle and bridle at 9^. 



The first expensive saddle bought in the later period is in 

 1550, when the President of Magdalen's saddle costs 23 s. In 



