576 ON THE PRICE OF TEXTILE FABRICS AND CLOTHING. 



In 1450 a pair costs $s. 6d. ; in 1457 a pair of 'centones' is 

 bought for $s. ^d. ; in 1502 the same articles are bought for $s. ; 

 in 1513 two are made at Hickling from twelve ells of the 

 material at *]\d., and therefore cost js. 6d. In 1555 a pair of 

 * centones ' costs ios. 8d. ; in 1563 a pair costs 8s. ^d. ; in 1574 

 1 1 s. $d. In 1572 a pair of ' rug' blankets are bought for 1 1 s. 8d., 

 and a pair of stragulae for i6s. 8d. In 1555 a pair of red 

 blankets costs 23.$-., and in 1556 a single article is bought for 

 us. But lodix is also used (Vol. Ill, p. 486, i) for sheets. 

 In 1539 a pair of sheets costs Js. lod. ; in 1557 6s. 8d. Perhaps 

 a pair of 'lintheamina,' bought in 1421 with other bedding for 43., 

 arc also sheets, as those in 1450 for 3^. 6d., and a pair for 

 choristers in 1473 a ^ 2<y - 4*^ 



Here it may be convenient to refer to other kinds of 

 bedding. Feather beds cost zos. in 1459 ; <$6s. 8d. in 1506 ; 

 15^. in 1543 ; 13^. 4d. in 1560. A feather bed and pillow are 

 bought for 6os. in 1553, and a bolster for 5.$-. In 1489 a 

 feather bed and pillow cost i$s. ^d. 



Mattrasses, stuffed it seems with wool, appear in the 

 accounts: in 1421 at 4^.; in 1434 at 5^. ; in 1447 at 4^. ; in 

 1496 at zs. 8d. ; in 1516 at 3^., prices being, as not infrequently 

 before, low in the latter part of the fifteenth century and the 

 beginning of the sixteenth. In 1553 the price is qs. A night- 

 cap costs lod. in 1510. Six pillows are bought at lod. in 1521, 

 and twelve pulvinaria, six at each of two Oxford colleges, in 

 1569 at IO.T. each. In 1431 a cushion cost jd. ; in 1532, 2s. 6d. 

 In 1572 a tick for a feather bed supplied to the President of 

 Corpus, Oxford, costs the college 47 s. 6d. A cooptorium for a 

 bed costs 5.9. 6d. in 1404, and 4^. in 1421. Three quilts are 

 bought at 5^. ^d. each in 1555. 



In 1571 a hanging for the bed-chamber of the Warden of 

 All Souls, Oxford, was bought for 8oj. A toralis lecti majoris ' 

 in J 553 costs 86.r. 8d. A 'Tapes' for the high altar cost 5 

 in 1542, and one for the high table 53 s. 4d. in 1553. In 

 1572 two velamina tapetis cost 13^. 4^. each. An altar- 

 cloth and frontlet were bought at Sutterton in 1511 for 



