700 ON THE COST OF CARRIAGE. 



whole quantity, on the above estimate, being 3^ tons, and 

 being carried at id. a mile. 



In 1437 looj quarters are carried by land from Hevening- 

 land to Wroxham at id. a mile. Wroxham, as I have stated, 

 is on the Bure, and the distance is about ten miles. This rate 

 is again a penny per mile. 



In the same year stone is carried by the load from various 

 places for building All Souls' College. From Teynton to 

 Burford, from Sherborne to Burford, and from Burford to 

 Oxford. From Teynton to Burford is about three miles, from 

 Sherborne to Burford about 6|- miles, from Burford to Oxford 

 about 22j miles. The rate of the latter varies from zs. to 

 2s. 6d., and if the load and the ton are equal quantities, this 

 will make the rate rather over id. per ton per mile on the 

 long distance, but a little less than id. from Sherborne to 

 Burford. Chicheley pays high prices for his labour, as high as 

 any paid in the fifteenth century at any place. 



In 1438 a hundred quarters of barley are carried from 

 Guton manor to Norwich. The distance is said to be seven 

 leagues, or 21 miles. Now, on the calculation made above, 

 a hundred quarters would weigh 20 tons, and the carriage 

 would cost, at 4d. a quarter or is. Sd. a ton, almost exactly 

 id. a ton per mile. Fastolfe, who was exporting this barley, 

 paid i s. for storage at the common stathe, 2s. 6d. for carriage 

 thence to ship, and 2s. 6d. as a fee to the keeper of the 

 common stathe, this being probably a payment made to the 

 corporation, and one of the sources of their revenue. Next 

 year the same quantity is taken to the same place, and the 

 same charges are made, with the exception that the custom 

 at the stathe is is. zd. instead of zs. 6d. Again, in 1443, the 

 same quantity is taken at a cheaper rate, and we are further 

 told that twenty carts were employed. The cost is now 30^. 

 instead of 33^. 4^., i.e. less than a penny per ton per mile. 

 It may be noticed that in 1441 divers carts were hired to make 

 the journey at the same price as is paid in 1443, is. 6d. each. 

 In 1444 the knight makes a larger venture, for 138 quarters are 



