458 ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC. 



in 1549 is at $s. Next come middle spiking, twelve entries of 

 which between 1414 and 1446 give an average of 2s. \\d. the 

 thousand. Six entries of single spiking are at i s. 6d. the thousand. 



Fourteen entries of scotsem nails give an average of is. $\d. 

 the thousand. The quotations are from 1414 to 1531, and the 

 price falls from is. io\d. in 1418 to is. in the last four entries. 

 Twelve entries of lead nails between 1414 and 1543 give an 

 average of is. iod., the last being is. 4d. and higher than the 

 rest. One entry in 1549 is 6s. the thousand. 



Six entries of brods between 1414 and 1547 give an average 

 of is. 2\d. One in 1559 is at zs. 8d. the thousand. Six of 

 single nails are at an average of is. between 1415 and 1527. 

 But the price falls greatly. They are at is. lod. the thousand 

 in 1432, but only at 6d. in 1444-5, though they rise again to 

 lod. in 1527. Four entries of gullet nails are found at lod. 

 the thousand in 1418-19, at 8d. in 1444-5. Eleven entries of 

 stone brods are at an average of is. i^d., the price falling from 

 is. 4d. to is. the thousand. There is a single entry of strabrods 

 at 6d. the thousand in 1419. There are the varieties of York 

 nails, and they are almost peculiar to the city. 



Many other kinds of nails occur, of which the commonest 

 are prigs, found especially in Sussex. Twenty entries of these 

 give nearly is. id. the thousand. Sixteen entries of roof nails 

 by the sum give an average of nearly 6s. 8d. Seven entries 

 of transome nails give an average of rather over 9 Jaf. the thou- 

 sand. Six entries of window nails by the hundred are at 4\d., 

 three by the thousand at is. 4d., the kinds being obviously 

 different. Again, nails known as bushel nails are bought at 

 Oxford in the sixteenth century at prices rising from yd. the 

 thousand to is. yd., the average being is. \\d. Six entries of 

 roof nails by the thousand give an average of is. i\d. Five 

 of fotnails by the hundred are at $\d.> these articles being 

 evidently of the quality of the later sixpennies. Five entries 

 of stone nails give a little over io^d. the thousand ; one at 

 Bradstone, and it is clear of a different kind, being 2s. 6d. the 

 thousand. Four entries of tinned nail in the earlier period are 



