704 ON THE COST OF CARRIAGE. 



Cross, Deptford, to Eltham palace. The account states that 

 the rate is 9^., i.e. for the half thousand. The distance is five 

 miles. Bricks weigh over three tons the thousand, for a good 

 dry brick weighs about seven pounds. The rate is about a 

 penny the ton. 



In 1534 six loads of timber are carried from Croydon to the 

 Tower at zs. 4d. The distance cannot be less than fourteen 

 miles, and the rate is id. a mile. 



In 1536 twenty-one loads of wood are carried from South 

 Hinksey to Oxford at precisely z\d. the load. The distance is 

 not less than three miles. 



In 1538 a load of stone is carried from Frimley quarry to 

 Windsor, a distance of at least sixteen miles, for i s. Sd. This is 

 probably the estimate of a good day's work for man, two horses 

 and cart. It is at the same or nearly the same rate. In the 

 same year tiles are carried to Oxford at id. the thousand per 

 mile. Tiles weigh about i\ pounds each, and the rate is high. 



In 1539 loads of timber are carried from certain woods near 

 Canterbury to the city. One still goes by the old name, 

 Thorndon, the middle of which is about five miles from 

 Canterbury. The rate is Sd. the load. Whitstable is about 

 eight miles by road from the same place, and the rate is is., 

 i.e. \\d. the mile. Tons from the same place and from Faver- 

 sham, between eleven and twelve miles by road, are paid at the 

 same rate, is. id.^ and in the latter case are at the average 

 amount. Loads of hay from Headington, between two and 

 three miles from the middle of Oxford, are carried at 4^. each. 



In 1540 bricks are carried from Deptford to Horton, three 

 miles, as the account states, at 4^. the thousand, a little over a 

 penny per ton. But the carriage of hay from Headington is yd. 

 this year, and is. yd. the next, prices which must be explained 

 by some temporary cause, for in the latter year 931 feet of 

 timber, I presume hewn, are carried from Dray ton to Oxford, 

 twenty-seven or twenty-eight miles, for 2^. &; a ton of timber 

 from Hayling to Greenwich, eleven miles, for i s. Sd. ; eight 

 loads of wainscots from Henley to Oxford, at 6s. the load, or 



