582 ON THE PRICE OF TEXTILE FABRICS AND CLOTHING. 



and his wife at $s. 4^. All Souls gives a pair to the Bishop 

 of Worcester at 6s. 8d., and to Mr. Lovelace at 8j. In 1572 

 Serjeant Lovelace gets another pair from All Souls at 15^. 

 (here one can hardly doubt with a fee inside) ; Corpus three pairs 

 to the judges and counsel at $s. 3^., and two pairs to Sir 

 Walter Mildmay at 6s. 6d. In 1573 two P airs are P resen ted 

 to the Bishop of Winchester by Corpus at 45-. Next year the 

 same college gives the same prelate a pair at 5.$-. In 1575 

 Magdalen College gives a pair of gloves to Sir Walter Mildmay 

 at 3^. 4^. In 1576 All Souls gives two pairs to unnamed 

 persons at 5^., and Corpus a pair to the Lord Treasurer at los. 

 In 1579 the city of Oxford bestows two pairs of gloves on the 

 Lord Chancellor, each pair costing los. 



FUR. It remains that I should say a little on fur trimmings. 

 I have found only a few instances of this article. The cheapest 

 were made of rabbit-skins, and several entries of these by the 

 dozen are found. In the earliest, 1405, the skins cost TJ. 4^. 

 the dozen; in 1426 and 1432 they cost lod. ; in 1448, $d. ; 

 and thenceforward to 1460, 4^. These entries, denoting a 

 gradual fall in the price, assist the view I propounded in Vol. I, 

 p. 340, that in the fourteenth century this animal was scarce, 

 and probably of late introduction. 



Sets of fur are quoted at is. in 1449, twenty-four in number. 

 Black skins, i.e. black lambs, are worth 3^. each in 1444, and 

 4d. in 1455 and 1502. Undressed lambskins are worth 4^. a 

 dozen. Some lambskins cost 2^. each in 1502. 



The furred garment of the Warden of All Souls in 1560, 

 called 'amictus pelliceus,' must have been of excellent quality, 

 for it cost gos. A furred toga in 1440 was bought for 14^-. 4^. 



I may mention here the cap and surplice of the boy bishop, 

 or Episcopus Puerorum, the former costing is. in 1508, the 

 latter $s. in 1472. 



The tables annexed give the annual and decennial averages, 

 as far as they can be supplied, of four kinds of linen table, 

 shirting, canvas, and sackcloth, by the dozen ells or yards, and 

 three qualities of cloth by the pannus of twenty-four yards. 





