578 ON THE PRICE OF TEXTILE FABRICS AND CLOTHING. 



pays 5y. for a captain's jacket, and us. 8d. for a camelot jacket, 

 besides other sums for the clothing of the soldiers sent to 

 Tewkesbury field. 



A saddle-cloth in 1515 cost is. id., but in 1537 one is 

 purchased for the President of Magdalen for js. 2d. A tunica 

 in 1548 is 6s. 8d. 



Towards the latter end of the period travellers carried some 

 of their clothing in satchels fastened to the saddle and called 

 males. Five such articles are entered, one in 1502 at 4$-. 4^., 

 a second in 1527 at 6s. 8d., a third in 1560 at 95., a fourth in 

 1566 at 7.?. 4^., and again in 1572 at 7.$-. 6d. Similar to, though 

 not identical with these are cloke-bags. I find five such entries, 

 at is. 6d. in 1563, at 6s. 8d. in 1571, at 6s. in 1574 and 1577, 

 at 5.$-. 8d. in 1580. A male and budget in 1489 costs 8s. 8d. ; 

 a money male in 1577, 2s. Perhaps the Oxford 'mantica,' 

 priced in the later period at ^s. 6d., 7^., nj., and 8s., is the 

 male. 



Among textile fabrics we may perhaps reckon mats. These 

 articles were bought extensively, the separate record being 

 sometimes lost, at very various prices. Frail mats were sold 

 by the roll of 30 yards in 1532 at ^d. the yard. Mat pieces in 

 1570 at %s. 6d. These were probably goods manufactured to 

 lay down in the centre of rooms. Others are also by the piece. 

 Thus in 1435 four mats are bought in London for a hall at $\d. 

 each. In 1529 twenty mats at Oxford cost 2s. 4d., i.e. a little 

 under i\d. each. In 1560 Corpus College, Oxford, buys mats 

 at 6d. But the commonest of these products is the Welsh 

 mats, which are found between 1532 and 1568, and purchased 

 for the royal palaces. The earliest price is 4.5-. ^d. the dozen 

 yards. From 1533 to 1541 it is 4^-. In 1567 it costs 4$-. 8d. ; 

 in 1568, 3.$-. 6d. The edges of these mats appear to have been 

 bound with a material called handleband, which costs ^d. a 

 pound, and is probably a coarse hempen tape. 



It now remains that I should deal with the few articles of 

 clothing which have not been commented on. Of these, the 

 most costly, and perhaps the most gorgeous, according to the 



