BOATS AND NAVAL STORES. THREAD. TWINE. 633 



l\d. the pound in 1.566 and 1574. Flags with St. George's 

 Cross are bought at i6s. 8d. in 1562. 



' Ships were furnished with running-glasses, i.e. sand-glasses. 

 They cost lod. each in 1561, 1577, 1578. The mariner's 

 compass costs 2s. 8d. in 1561 ; is. 4^., 3^. 3^., and 6s. for great 

 compasses in 1562; i.y. ^d. in 1571; and 3^. ^d. in 1577 and 

 1578. The entry of 1571 seems suspicious. 



THREAD AND TWINE. Thread is bought of all colours, red, 

 white, blue, and green. It is described as utnall, oatenall, 

 Coleyn, and Bruges, as single and long skein, the price 

 in the earlier period varying from ^d. to is. 6d., and the 

 average in the early period is nearly q%d. In 1548 green 

 thread, always the dearest, costs 4^. a pound, and in 1555 half 

 a pound of divers colours is bought at is. 8d. 



In 1527 and 1533 twine is ^d. a pound ; in 1577, id. In 

 1451 it is bought by the heap at Ormesby, the price being id. 

 In 1442-4-5 whipcord is bought by the wind at Spitling, the 

 price being uniformly 3^., and in 1496 at Oxford by the knot, 

 when it is ^d. 



A very few items remain. An amfra costs ^d. in 1487, and 

 may be the same as an amphora at $d. in 1492. An astrolabe 

 is bought for 20^. in 1549. Balances cost lod. in 1495, jd. 

 in 1504; and in the latter year the weights is. gd. In 1572 

 balances are bought for 3.9. 4^., and the weights for 8s. In 

 1428 a bellman's bell was bought by the corporation of Norwich 

 for 2s. 4d., and a round of brawn in 1497 cost Sion i,y. id. 

 In 1570-1 caliver stocks cost is. each, and a costrel, which it 

 seems was a wooden drinking-bottle, cost 8d. in 1424. A 

 'culeus' cost Js. in 1549, and 'morris' pikes, eighteen feet 

 long, is. 6d. each in 1570. An oat-bag is bought for $\d. and 

 4d. in 1521, a quiver for 8d. in 1532, and a quiver with two 

 dozen arrows for 35-. 6d. in 1513. In 1543 a salt-box cost 3^., 

 and a ' semitensoria auri,' which I cannot interpret, 3.9. 4^. in 

 1555. In 1477 a settle costs 3^. 4^., and sye or size appears to 

 be bought by the dozen at is. in 1568 ; by the stone in 1561-2, 

 is. id. to is. 4d. t and by the pan, id. in 1534. Scorpets cost 



