508 ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIALS. 



wrought rag being 5J the foot. In 1607, Burford stone is qs. 

 a load, of course delivered, and ordinary stone is. ^d. In 1608 

 freestone is $s. lod. a load carried, 2s. 6d. not carried, and 

 pitching-stone is. $d. a load. In 1609, rag is is. id. to is.^d. 

 a load, other stone carried 5^. ^d. the ton. In 1610 there are 

 considerable buildings at Corpus Christi College, and Wadham 

 is being built. Freestone is 3^. 3^., the carriage being i s. 6d. a 

 ton, some 2s. iod., while rag is is. 6d. the load. I have 

 copied the Wadham entries from the building book. They 

 are unintelligible, except as an account of the cost of carriage. 

 The city buys freestone at 43. and pebbles at 2s. 6d. a load. 



In 1612, stone is 4^. a ton, and is. %d. carriage. In 1613, 

 rag is 3^. a load, pebbles 3^. ; and in the next year the latter is 

 3^. 8d. In 1615, the city buys i8J tons of freestone at prices 

 from 2s. lid. to is. 6d., eight load of walling stone at is. 6d., 

 fourteen load of scavelled stone at 8d., six load of ruffe stone 

 at i s. 6d. and eight at 2s. All Souls College buys paving-rag 

 at $\d. the foot, and pavement at the same price, stone steps 

 being *]d. the foot. In i6i6 5 freestone is 6d. a foot, and stone, I 

 presume rag, 2s. a load. But in 1617, freestone is $d. a foot, 

 rag 4*/., freestone being $s. the ton. In 1618, rag is $d. a foot, 

 rag steps 6d. a foot, and paving pebbles 6s. a load. In 1619, 

 ashlars are 24s. the hundred feet, almost the price of Burford 

 stone in 1600. In 1620 Corpus Christi College buys stone at 

 285-. the ton and 6d. the foot. So states the record, and also 

 that the whole cost of the stone was 6 i*]s. I do not know 

 what the stone can be, and how thick the superficial foot was, 

 for of course the foot cannot be cubic. In the next year, free- 

 stone is bought at i\d. the foot, and in 1622 at 3^., the ton 

 being '2s. g\d. In 1623 it is 3^., as also in 1625. Pebbles in 

 1624 are at 3^. 6d. a load. But in 1630 freestone is i2s. $d. a 

 load. In 1632, stone is ^d. a foot at the quarry, and paving- 

 rag is *d. In 1644 stone carried is 5^. a load. In 1662, stone 

 is 6\d. a foot ; and in 1664, freestone is 3^. 6d. a ton, and almost 

 exactly the same price in 1665. In 1669 stone is ^d. the foot, 

 and the same in 1671, when it is called paving-stone. In 1672 



