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J 534j when we are told that the carriage was not included in 

 the price, 4^. &/. and 6s. in 1536, 6s. 6d. in 1541. In 1567 it 

 costs i6s. for the same quantity. 



Among minor matters I may mention that a pound and 

 stocks are erected at the cost of King's College, in 1573, at 

 Cambridge. The charge is zos. In the next year the same 

 college sets up a pound at Granchester at a cost of 27.$". 



There are a few entries in the earlier part of the fifteenth 

 century of chimney parells. I do not find the word in the 

 glossaries, but I conclude from the character of the entries that 

 the word means stone slabs used as chimney-pieces. In 1535 

 two such articles, each 5 feet in length, are bought for the 

 King's use at Ss. each. In the next year two 5-feet parells 

 cost 9^. each, two of 6 feet izs. each. In 1541 two of 5 

 feet cost 8s., and two more of the same length los. each, and 

 one of 5^ feet also ics. But two others, respectively 17 and 

 i6| feet long, cost each 2U. 6d. In 1562 a wainscot portal 

 and ceiling cost 2,6s. 8d. } a wainscot ceiling zos., and a 

 pair of hinges to the portal in the next year's account cost 

 is. 6d. These are bought at Cambridge. In 1567 three 

 wainscot doors with locks and garnets were purchased for 

 65*. 4d. 



In 1542 a lion and dragon in stone cost 30^. In 1533 the 

 queen's badges (Anne Boleyn) in glass cost is. the quarrel. A 

 pair of the queen's arms in 1567 cost 6os. Elizabeth's badge 

 in a glass quarrel costs 8d. and is. 9 and her arms in glass, in 

 1567 and 1568, $s. the piece. In 1536 lead letters are bought 

 at zd. a pound, and lead ( antics ' at $d. 



PAINTS AND COLOURS. From the remains which still exist 

 and are occasionally discovered under plaster, whitewash, or 

 whatever else was used at the Reformation to obliterate the 

 symbols or decorations of the old faith, we find that our 

 ancestors had made considerable progress in the art of wall 

 and wood painting. My accounts supply me with several 

 entries of pigments. These are Spanish black, brown and 

 white, cerussa, 'lamplack,' red lead or minium, and white 



