TILES, SLATES, AND CRESTS. 533 



other parts of the structure. These articles are also called 

 hip tiles, corner, roof, eave tiles, gutter, foot, hollow (which 

 is defined in 1639 as ridge and gutter), and imbrices. On one 

 occasion I find lateres fictiles at a high price, 36^. a thousand. 

 These were, I conclude, a form of ornamental brick. 



One of these kinds of tile, known as paving tile, is very 

 frequently purchased in the earlier part of the period. Thus 

 in 1584, All Souls College paved part of their hall, or 

 perhaps, as the quantity is not large, repaired it with paving 

 tile. These paving tiles are always bought by the dozen or 

 hundred. They are generally about two-thirds the price of 

 crests, though occasionally they are even dearer. On one 

 occasion at Eton they are bought by the load, which is I 

 presume 500. All kinds of these tiles, crest and paving, are 

 cheaper at Oxford than elsewhere. 



Brick at Oxford is very dear. It is bought by the dozen, 

 and occasionally by the thousand. Thus when the average 

 price in Cambridge is I2s. u*/. the thousand, at Oxford they 

 are nearly 28^. I have found it convenient for purposes 

 of illustration to take a hypothetical quantity of twelve dozen, 

 and to also expand these into prices by the thousand. They 

 are generally bought in small quantity, and, as appears from 

 notices given of the occasion on which they are needed, were 

 used to line ovens. Thus at Oxford, in 1604, half-a-dozen are 

 bought at6*/. by Oriel College, 22 \ dozen by Magdalen College 

 at 9*/. the dozen. In 1606 All Souls College buys at is. a 

 dozen, and in 1609 Corpus Christi College gives the same price. 

 In 1610 Magdalen College purchases 443 at the enormous rate 

 of nearly 70^. a thousand. When they are bought by the hun- 

 dred or thousand they are generally cheaper, but even in these 

 cases they are at a far higher rate than in any other locality. 



Besides what seem, as far as the entries go, to be ordinary 

 bricks, others specifically designated are quoted. Broad brick 

 in i ;,4 is at los. 6d. the hundred ; in 1588, brick, evidently for 

 some special purpose, at los. sd. In 1591 paving brick is 95. 

 In 1595 paving brick is at 6s. $d. and 8j. ^d. a hundred. In 



