464 ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC. 



Adzes are found twice, in 1548 and 1574. They cost yd. in 

 the first entry, ^d. in the second. There are two entries of 

 anvils, one in the Finchale account for 1479, wnere the price 

 is i6s. 8d., the other in certain purchases for the queen's service 

 in 1566, where the price is 66s. Sd. In the first case the anvil 

 probably weighed about 2 cwt., in the second about 3^ cwt. 

 There are three entries of augers, the first in 1462 at Wye, 

 where the price is $\d., the second in 1548, where two kinds 

 are purchased for the navy, bung and inch augers, the former at 

 is. 6d., the latter at 6d., and in 1562, where the price for the 

 same service is icd. Awls are bought once in 1569, also for 

 the navy at \\d. each. 



Axes are more frequently purchased for the kitchen than for 

 the work of the carpenter and woodcutter. But a woodcutter's 

 axe is bought at London in 1449 at 1J -> at Cambridge in 1454 

 and 1458 for Sd., in 1462 at Wye for iod., at London in 1469 for 

 is., at Hulme in 1516 for 5<^., at Durham in 1532 for 8d., in 

 1533 at Lewes for is., in 1544 at Cambridge for iod., in 1562 

 at London for is. 4d., helves to axes being bought at Oxford in 

 the same year at id., in 1574 at London for the queen's service 

 at Sd. The average for the whole is nearly iod. 



In 1490 a brass plane is purchased at Oxford for the plumber 

 during the works of Magdalen College for is. Sd., when also a 

 beam and scales for weighing the lead to be put on the roof 

 of the chapel and hall was purchased for is. yd. Bung borers 

 are bought for the navy in 1574 at 4d., and chisels in London 

 in 1548 at $d. Carpenter's compasses cost zd. each in 1574. 

 A dolabrum at Cambridge in 1511 is dubious; it may be axe, 

 which is likely, or adze, which is what it should mean. Files 

 are bought at Hickling in 1519 at 4^., and a pair of 'forceps' 

 in 1535 at Oxford for is. A machine called 'a gynne,' per- 

 haps a crane, is purchased at Magdalen in 1545 for zos. The 

 three cranes bought by Merton College for their bell-tower in 

 1448-50, Vol. Ill, pp. 729-731, cost 26s. Sd., 4$s. 6d., and 56".$-. 



A great hammer at York costs, in 1415, 5^.8^., and another 

 at the same place in 1418, $s. On the other hand, a hammer 



