632, SUNDRY ARTICLES. 



average by the pound is n^., the purchases of the Crown being 

 generally made, and in very large quantities, at lod. 



The ordnance was discharged by match, which is bought by 

 the hundredweight, at $os. in 1570, at 2,8s. in 1578, at MS. in 

 1581. The decrease in the price is significant. 



Saltpetre is bought at 70^. the hundredweight in 1569, at 

 70.?. and 6$s. in 1570. Sulphur in 1570 costs 35.?. the hundred- 

 weight. 



BOATS, NETS, &c. Boats, called also by the names navicula 

 and cymba, occur not unfrequently, especially in the Cambridge 

 accounts. In 1408 a new boat at Jarrow costs 18^., and in 

 1413 another at the same place 19^-. d. In 1466 King's 

 College buys a cymba for 15^., evidently for fishing, as a net 

 on the same occasion costs 8s. ^d. In 1483 the same society 

 gives 8s. 8d. for a cymba, and in 1486 a cymba costs Jarrow 

 13.$-. ^d. In 1529 Sion gives 46^. %d. for a boat. In 1552 

 Cambridge buys a navicula for 23^., and Oxford a cymba for 

 35^. ^d. In 1569 two boats, one 38 ft. long by 9 ft. 3 in. 

 deep, and 3 ft. 2 in. in beam, and a second 35 ft. by 9 ft by 

 3ft. 2 in. cost .24 and 22 respectively. These are sea- 

 going boats. In 1573 the Crown buys three sea-going boats at 

 24, the size only slightly varying. In 1578 two other boats, 

 slightly deeper, cost 2,6 each. At the same time 532 ft. of 

 wooden pump are bought at is. id. the foot. 



In 1420 a boat with oars is bought at Jarrow for ios., and 

 in 1492 a similar purchase is made at Wearmouth. A boat 

 and two oars is bought at Sion in 1527 for 44^-., a little less 

 than the price paid for a boat two years later. A boat sail is 

 bought by Sion in 1530 for is. 6d. 



Two fishing-nets are bought at Finchale in 1423 for 5^. 8d. 

 together. A net, ten fathoms long, is purchased in 1448 at 

 Selborne for us. In 1530 Sion pays 2s. 8d. for a fishing-net, 

 and in 1532 a net for a fish stew costs icd. There is the 

 rethe of Cambridge, 1466, which costs 8s. 4d. ; and in 1516 two 

 trammel nets at Hulme, in Norfolk, cost 8s. and js. severally. 



Cork, used for floats, perhaps for other purposes too, costs 



