LAND CARRIAGE. COARSE GOODS. 699 



tons and 50 tons are hired at 3.9. 4^. per ton, per month. But 

 this hiring, I imagine, is of the vessel only. 



LAND CARRIAGE. Information under this head is far 

 more copious. I shall comment on the cost of coarser and 

 commoner articles first. 



In 1403 eighteen carts are employed on carrying materials 

 from Hitchen to Steeple Morden. In a straight line the 

 places are about 10^ miles distant. The rate is is. 6d. the 

 journey, and assuming, as was done in the first volume, that 

 the distance traversed was about 13 miles, it is a little under 

 i\d. a mile. 



In 1410 twenty carts, each with two horses, bring stone 

 from Henley to Oxford, and in 1411 two such carts carry 

 marble. The rate in the first year is 4^. q\d. ; in the second, 

 $s. Henley could not at that time have been much less than 

 thirty miles by road from Oxford, and the road is hilly. The 

 rate is about 2^. a mile. 



In 1415 285 tons of stone are carried by land from Huddle- 

 stone quarry to Cawood pier. The distance in a straight 

 line is nearly seven miles, and the road must have been that 

 called the Bishop's Dyke. The actual length traversed must 

 have been fully eight miles, and the rate is \\d. per ton per 

 mile. In 1421 the whole distance from Huddlestone quarry 

 to York is traversed on land. In a straight line the quarry 

 is about fourteen miles from York, and by road is probably 

 nearly eighteen. If this be correct, the rate, 2.T., is more than 

 \\d* a mile. 



In 1429 fifty quarters of barley are carried from Hevening- 

 land to Norwich, a distance of nine miles by road, at id. a 

 quarter. If we assume that five quarters weigh a ton, the rate 

 is a little over a penny a ton per mile. In 1436 97 quarters 

 are carried at 3^. a quarter, that is, on the above calculation, at 

 about i\d. per ton per mile. 



In 1434 seventeen quarters and a half of barley are carried 

 from Framlingham, in Suffolk, to Cromer. The distance must 

 be nearly 43 miles. The cost, 3^. 6d., is exceedingly low, the 



