450 ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC. 



1500. Other kinds are Kent hard stone and Reigate stone, 

 bought at Sion in 1507, 1508, 1512, 1515, 1516, 1518, 1534, 

 1535. Caen stone is purchased by the ton at 7 s. in 1512 (7 in 

 Vol. Ill, p. 407, iv, is a misprint), at 5^. \d. in 1534, and at 

 5$-. id. in 1535. Here we are informed that a ton of Caen 

 stone was 16 (cubic) feet, one of Reigate 18 feet. Hard heath 

 stone is purchased at Windsor in 1536, grey stone and blue 

 stone at other places. 



Ashlars are bought by the foot, the hundred, and the load, 

 sometimes singly. They are about ^d. the foot, 165-. to iSs. 

 the hundred, and 6s. the load. But we read of great ashlars 

 at far higher prices, and of two purchased by All Souls' in 

 1437, when the college was being built, at 4s. 6d. each, these 

 being destined to be worked into images. Some of the All 

 Souls' ashlars were purchased at Headington, others at Hinksey, 

 villages near Oxford. The Oxford accounts also designate Tale 

 stone and Mete stone, terms which I cannot expound. There 

 are several entries of paving stone by the load at very various 

 prices. 



Some singular names for wrought stone, which may still 

 survive, are supplied from the King's Hall accounts for 1416, 

 1417, 1419, 1421, 1427, 1428, 1429, 1449, and at Peterhouse 

 in 1460. They are King's table, doublets, coyns, nowell, for steps, 

 jambs, geerth, varies, moynell, ringgold, leggement, double and 

 single bows, chamerants, perpoint, respowndes, square and form 

 pieces, serches, join table, voucers for windows, formelets and 

 stanchions. A note in the year 1427 informs us that they 

 were bought of the quarryman. They were purchased for the 

 chapel and library. Part of the latter building is still said to 

 exist in the first quadrangle of Trinity College at the right-hand 

 corner. I do not pretend to interpret these terms of medieval 

 architecture. Some are familiar to us at the present day. 

 Others are found in the early Cambridge accounts only. Nor 

 can I guess at Helyng stone at Otterton (1482), cress table 

 at Oxford, and crest stone at Sion in 1515, or Pepylstone at 

 Cambridge in 1518, though its price (nd. the load) is low, or 



