BOARD AND PLANK. 523 



proportion to the thickness. The hundred of plank is, more- 

 over, 120 feet, as we are expressly told. Sometimes however 

 plank is used for a cheaper article. At Eton in 1615 there 

 are entries of three-inch, two-inch, and inch-and-a-half plank, 

 at 18^., I2s. 6d., and icxr.; and these prices, or something very 

 near them, are repeated for some few years. They appear 

 to have been purchased for Sir H. Savile's press buildings. 

 In 1671 these three kinds of plank are bought for navy stores 

 by the load, probably of forty cubic feet. At Maidstone in 

 1599, four kinds of plank are purchased, and priced, three- 

 inch at i6s. 6d., two-inch at us. 6d., i^-inch at 8s. 6d., inch 

 at 5$-. 8d. Towards the end of the period, board increases 

 greatly in price, as far as the few entries which are found 

 inform me. 



There are at least twelve entries of clove, clap, or claw 

 board, generally bought for the navy. In these the hundred 

 is of 100 pieces, with one exception, 1610, where it is bought 

 by the 100 superficial feet in London. The earliest entry is 

 at Cambridge in 1593, when the cost is 32^. the hundred. 

 In 1597 clap boards are 40^. and 6oj. at two Oxford colleges. 

 In 1600 clove board is at 35^. at Maidstone dockyard. But 

 in 1604, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, buys this article at 

 85^. the hundred. In 1611, it costs 305. and 63^. ^d. at the 

 same Cambridge College. In 1619 it is bought at Chatham 

 at io6s. 8d., and is described as large; in 1621 it is loos. ; in 

 1622, nos. and 113^.4^.; in 1624, n^s.^d. and 84^.; in 1625, 

 iocs, and 105^. ; in 1626, 105*. ; in 1630, izos. ; and in 1645, 

 clove board costs 9 the hundred. In 1667, boards twelve 

 feet long are bought by the hundred for Eton College at 

 14OS. In the book of rates, clap board is said to be that 

 which is cut, in order to make casks. 



Another kind of board is described as quarters, generally 

 oak, and sometimes described as wainscot, and distinguished 

 as single and double quarters. From entries under the years 

 I'H i and 1613, quarters are said to have been from nine to 

 seven feet long. They are also described as single or double. 



