LAND CARRIAGE. COARSE GOODS. HAY. 705 



id. per mile ; four loads of plank from Heckfield in Hants to 

 New College, at the same rate, the distance being at least 

 twelve miles further, and two loads of stone from Woking to 

 Windsor, the rate being is., and the distance being about 

 thirteen miles. 



In 1543 goods are carried at id. a ton to London for eight 

 miles. But again, in 1548 a large quantity of wheat is con- 

 veyed by land from Portsmouth to Southampton, a distance by 

 road of twenty-five miles, at $\d. the quarter, a price even 

 lower than that of Fastolfe's contracts in 1438, 1439, 1441, and 

 1444. 



In 1557 hay is purchased by Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 

 at Great Milton, and conveyed thence to Oxford at is. the 

 load. The distance is ten miles. In 1558 the same service is 

 performed for a little over is. lod. In the same year Corpus 

 pays lod. a load for hay from Magdalen Meadow ; in 1560, 8d. 



In 1560 a hundred and twenty-four bigates of freestone are 

 carried from Ramsey in Hunts to Cambridge, at is. $d. ; the 

 distance is at least twenty-four miles: and sixty-six loads of 

 timber are brought from Cumnor to Oxford, about five miles 

 by the road then in use, at is. 8d. 



In 1562, loads of hay from Wolvercote, less than three miles 

 from Oxford, are carted at is. Sd. But in 1567 carts carry 

 goods from Footscray to Greenwich, then reckoned at six 

 miles, at $d. a mile, and eight loads of slates, which could not 

 have been less than a ton apiece, from Temple Guiting, nearly 

 forty miles from Oxford, at 4^. id., while nineteen loads of 

 timber were carted from Bagley wood to All Souls', quite three 

 miles or more, at a little less than $\d. the load. 



In 1568 carriage from Croydon to Greenwich, described as 

 seven miles, is at the rate of 4^. a mile. This is about the rate 

 from Grandpont, near Oxford, to the centre of the town in the 

 same year. In 1571 loads of timber from Southwark to the 

 Minories, probably three miles, are also at ^d. In 1572 hay is 

 carted from Witney to Oxford at 5.$-., the distance being about 

 eleven miles, and the rate being a little higher, while wood from 



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