462 ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC. 



at 8s. the dozen, and in 1543 plate locks and keys are bought at 

 Dartford for the court gates at 6s. 8d. A lock and key for the 

 street door is purchased at Oxford in 1544 for is. 4^., five 

 swivel locks in 1548 at $s., and a lock and key in 1549 for is. 

 In 1554 King's College buys two kitchen locks at io\d. In 

 1555 eight stock locks are bought in London at is., and a lock 

 and forty keys, probably a hall or library lock to which the 

 forty fellows had pass keys, by Magdalen College, Oxford, for 

 33.9. ^d. In 1562 six locks and keys are bought for the Deptford 

 arsenal at is. 6d., seven locks for budgets at 6\d., and a great 

 plate lock for $s., and in 1563 two cupboard locks with keys are 

 bought in the same place at is. ^d. In 1565 Magdalen College, 

 Oxford, pays 6s. for two locks and six keys, and is. for another 

 lock. In 1567 three wainscot doors with locks and garnets are 

 set up at a cost of 65^. 4^., and at Greenwich twelve stub locks 

 cost is. id. each, one plate lock 6s. %d., and one laundry lock 

 is. In the last-named place were probably kept the queen's 

 sheets, which were served out to the workmen in her employ at 

 the lodgings where she housed and boarded them. Next year 

 single and double stock locks are priced is. id. and is., cup- 

 board locks being is. 6d. each. In the same year Corpus buys 

 a key for the founder's chapel at Winchester at a cost of is. id. 

 In 1570 hanging and pad-locks cost from is. ^d. to is. in 

 London, and in 1571 at the same place a stock lock costs 

 i s. ^d., a hanging lock is., a cupboard lock is. 4^., and a double 

 stock lock and key 3.$-. 4^. In 1574 a lock and two keys for the 

 Corpus buttery is bought for is. 6d., and in 1576 a lock and 

 key at All Souls' costs is. 6d. In 1578 stock locks at Gilling- 

 ham cost is. 6d. ; in 1579, hanging locks in London cost lod. ; 

 'and in 1580 a lock and key at Oxford is. Lastly, a lock and 

 key for a study door at New College costs ^s. ^d., nearly the 

 highest price found. 



I have thought it better to give these prices in detail, as it 

 is impossible to tabulate them, and difficult to interpret them. 

 They indicate very various qualities and very various articles. 

 The rude lock of the farm and the ordinary chamber was doubt- 



