41 2 WOOL, HIDES, AND BARK. 



being us. ; in 1599 sixteen at iSs., the Eton price being I2J., 

 and the Rochester 135. id. In 1604 a bull's hide fetches 

 14^. 4<, the Eton price being nj. 6d. In 1617 six ox-hides 

 fetch 23.?. 6d. each at Gawthorp, the Eton price being less 

 than 15^. In 1618 three hides fetch over 2os. each, the Eton 

 price remaining at the rate of the previous year. The two 

 last entries at Gawthorp are in 1621 and 1622, where ox-hides 

 are at 2os. and 195. Again, on Lady Leicester's lands ox-hides 

 are at iSs. 4d., when the average of the sixteen Eton entries 

 is i$s. 4d. 



D'Ewes gives the price of hides from his estate for four con- 

 secutive years, 1636, 1637, 1638, and 1639. In the first it is 

 I2s. 4\d., in the second it is 13^., in the third I2s. 4\d., in the 

 fourth i T s. The prices are lower than those of Eton in the same 

 year. Harting also quotes hides in 1631, 1632 and 1633. 

 In the first year the price is us. $%d., in the second 13^. 3^., 

 in the third i2s. 6d. 



Hides of inferior quality, cow, kine, heifer, steer and the 

 like, are no doubt grouped with a better and more valuable 

 kind. Thus a cow-hide at Eton in 1566 is put at $s. 8</., when 

 an ox-hide is *js. ; another in 1580 at 4^., when the ox is 8s. 

 Shuttleworth sells kine-hides at 9^. when he gets 17^. 6d. for 

 ox-hides, heifer and kine-hides at qs. when the ox-hide is iSs. 

 D'Ewes sells steer-hides at Js. and los. when he gets from 

 us. to i$s. for ox-hides, Js. for a heifer-hide, us. for a cow- 

 hide. 



The notes contain a few entries of the price of leather, 

 described as backs, butts, and upper leathers. Backs are 

 bought for the Rochester ship stores at 2os. in 1587 and 1588, 

 at 24.$-. in 1859, at ^is. in 1591 245. is given for backs at Lon- 

 don in 1599, anc * at Portsmouth in 1600 and 1622. 



Butts are bought at Chatham in 1619 at 30^., in 1620 from 

 2gs. to 3U., in 1621 at 30^., in 1622 at 33^. and 33^. 4^., in 1623 

 at from 275. to 2qs. 4d., in 1625 at prices varying from 25^. to 

 32^., and in 1626 at rates from 31^. to 4U. In 1629 butts cost 

 35^. at Chatham, and backs 30^. at Portsmouth ; in 1630 the 



