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INDEX. 



Selden, 



his use of spectacles, 599. 

 Selim I, 



his conquest of Egypt, 654. 



Settle, 



price of, 633. 



Sewing-hair, 

 prices of, 563. 



Sewing-silk, 



prices of, 562. 

 Sextary, 



quantity of, 639. 



amount in Gascony and 

 sweet wine, 650. 



Shaving-cloth, 557. 



Sheep, 



numbers of, kept, according 

 to 25 Hen. VIII, cap. 13, 

 no. 



kinds of, 337. 



washing and shearing, by 

 hundred, 497. 



bells, 416. 



breeding, 



rules for, 48-50. 



farming, 



increase of, 63. 



continued by landowners, 



305. 

 Sheets, 



price of, 576. 



Sheffield, &c., 



property of Lord Shrewsbury 

 at, in 1578, in. 



Shelda, 



price of, 413. 



Shipwrights, 



wages of, fixed by 6 Hen. 

 VIII, 119. 



Shirts, 



price of, 553. 



Shoes, 



prices of, 580. 



Shots, 



i. e. young pigs, 340. 



Shrewsbury, Earl of, 



his accounts in 1578, in. 



Shrimps, 



price of, 538. 

 Sickles, 



price of, 413 



Sieves, 



price of, 413. 



Signboards, 

 price of, 622. 



Silk, 



skeins of, 574. 



Silk manufacture, 



in London, in fifteenth cen- 

 tury, 149. 

 in England, 571. 



Silver plate, 



prices of, by the oz., 475, 

 612. 



Simila, 



price of, 278. 

 Similago, 



price of, 278. 



Sion abbey, 



home farm of, 2. 



often gives annual averages, 



211. 



purchases of butter by, 359. 



Skechons, 



price of, 624. 

 Skill, 



exceptional, paid for at low 



rates, 504. 

 Skillets, 



price of, 617. 



Skimmers, 

 price of, 617. 



Skochyns, 



price of, 624. 

 Skoppits, 



price of, 624. 



Slates, 



kinds of, and prices of, 442. 



Smiths' bellows, 466. 

 Smollett, 



on English trade in eigh- 

 teenth century, 693. 

 Snipe, 



price of, 344. 



Soap, 



price of, 396. 



Sockets, 



price of, 624. 



Soiling, 



of horses, well known, 296. 

 Solar fertility, 



its register in the price of 



salt, 391. 

 Solder, 



price of, 479. 



Soldering irons, 466. 

 Soldiers' clothing, 578. 



Somerset, Duke of, 



confiscation of guild lands 

 by, 6. 



Southwick, priory of, 

 prices at, 1414-23, in. 



Sovereign, 



revenue of, 157. 



Sowing, 



rules for, 42. 



Sow with pigs, 

 entries of, 340. 



Sows, 



price of, 341. 



Spades, or vangae, 

 price of, 412. 



Spanish iron, 

 kinds of, 399. 



Spanish whites, browns, &c., 

 price of, 630. 



Spars, 



in vineyards, 636. 



Speaker, the, 



his functions in the fifteenth 

 century, 167. 



Spectacles, 



prices of, and invention of, 



598. 

 stone-breakers', 466. 



Speculative purchases, 



unknown in Middle Ages, 

 402. 



Speculum, 

 price of, 624. 



Spigots, 



price of, 624. 



Sponge, 



price of, 624. 



Spoons, wooden and metal, 

 price of, 612. 



tin, 



price of, 624. 



Sprats, 



price of, and synonyms of, 

 528. 



Spruce iron, 

 prices of, 399. 



Spurs, 



price of, 424. 



Stable-rake, 

 price of, 624. 



Standard and vane, 

 price of, 624. 



Starch, 



price of, 624. 



