ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC. 467 



masons appear to have been brought from some distance, and 

 to have been licensed at a small cost to undertake work for the 

 college. It would seem that they had been engaged on royal 

 works, or were at least likely to be taken away for such a 

 purpose, since among the small particulars of expense, there 

 is the entry of a payment (u. 8d.) to the king's servant that the 

 masons should not quit the college work for the king's em- 

 ployment. 



The Teynton stone is purchased generally at id. the foot, 

 1073 feet being purchased at this rate and 108 feet at \\d. 

 This is used to dress the rough work of the tower, for which 

 Headington stone is employed, quarried by workmen who are 

 paid ^\d. a day. The lime purchased varies in price from 

 I s. ^d. to i s. the quarter, and the cost of making lime is put at 

 6d. the quarter. The higher price of lime appears to include 

 carriage, the lower to be exclusive of carriage. The carriage 

 of Teynton stone is set at zs. the bigate from this place to 

 Oxford. The cost of carrying stone from Teynton to Burford 

 is 4^., the same rate being paid from Milton and Windrush to 

 Burford. From Whitlade to Burford it is id. the load ; from 

 Headington to Oxford the charge is generally $\d. the load. 



I have nothing to add to the comment which I made on the 

 costs of this building in the first volume, except that which I 

 shall have to state below on the charge for labour and the price 

 of carriage. 



The subjoined tables contain prices of laths by the thousand, 

 of plain tiles, slates, and bricks by the thousand, of crests and 

 concave tiles by the hundred, and of tile and slate pins by the 

 bushel (the fact that the pins are used for slates being denoted 

 by S.), of lath-nails, and board or sixpenny nails, by the thousand. 

 The decennial averages give also laths by the load, glass by the 

 foot, and rope by the hundredweight. 



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