510 ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING MATERIALS. 



load, the carriage being 8s. lid. the load. In 1666 freestone 

 is 29^. the ton, or is. id. the foot, * 20 feet going to the ton.' 

 But in 1668 freestone is bought for the bakehouse at ^d. the 

 foot. In 1683 new stone is \s. 4\d. the foot, in 1692 hard 

 stone carried is at 3^. 4\d. But in 1693 freestone is 7*/., in 

 1697 paving-stone is 8d. Pebbles for paving are at 6d. to ICY/. 

 the bushel, and large sea-pebbles at ics. the ton, the carriage 

 being is. 6d. On the whole a considerable rise is effected in 

 this material, though it is not easy to interpret some entries. 



Eton occasionally buys stone. Here, the first use indicated 

 being for the oven, it is yd. the foot in 1595 and i597> ICY ^ i n 

 1604, purchased in quantity for some of Savile's buildings, but 

 6d. in 1605, where a certain quantity of 'Evestone' for coping 

 costs icd. In [616 it is a little over 7^.; in 1618, is. In 

 1620, cant pieces forming the coping of a brick wall are at $d. y 

 the measure being superficial. In 1622 it is lid. a. foot. In 

 1624 nine loads are bought at 3^. 8d., stair-steps at is. id. a 

 foot, Oxford stone at is. In 1629 paving-stone is at is. a 

 foot, but stone for the oven in 1634 is at 6\d. only. Next 

 year the College gives i s. $d. a foot for freestone, and 4\d. for 

 cants, the latter price being repeated next year. In 1640 

 stone for the oven is bought for 8d., in 1644 at lod. In 1682, 

 when some new buildings were undertaken, thirty tons are 

 bought, cut and set at 68s. 8d. the ton, i. e. probably squared 

 and fitted at the quarry and sent by river to the College, for 

 nearly an additional shilling per ton is paid for carriage from 

 the wharf to the buildings. At Eton then stone costs from 

 *]d. to is. $d. the foot, the highest price occurring within fifty 

 years from the beginning of the period. 



A few purchases are made at Canterbury, prices being 2J., 

 2s. 8d., 3^., 2s. 6d., is. 6d., $s., 3^. 4d. and 3^., the first purchase 

 being made in 1583, the last in 1677. It would seem that the 

 price of Kentish rag underwent very little change. Winchester 

 buys at 2s. a load in 1651, at 4^. in 1652. In 1655 it gives 6d. 

 a foot for freestone, 8^. and $s. a load in 1662, and buys seven 

 loads from the castle in 1663 at ios., the carriage costing zs. a 



