556 ON THE PRICE OF TEXTILE FABRICS. 



or reported to be produced. The prices vary, being 38^., 

 2Os. 3</., and 24^. the dozen. 



Another product is Dornick or Dornix, apparently used for 

 window-blinds. It is said to have been the product of Tournay, 

 whose Flemish name is Dornix or Dorneck. It is generally 

 bought for the house of the College Head. The average price 

 of five entries is close upon 27^. 9^, the dozen. 



Besides these there are few single entries of linen fabrics. 

 In 1598 Shopher cloth for sheeting, evidently a superior 

 article, is bought at 29^. the dozen. In 1606 Magdalen 

 College buys Vandelay canvas at 30^. the dozen. This is said 

 to be the same as Vittery canvas, extensively used for sails, on 

 which I shall have something to say presently. In 1610 

 King's College buys Vernich peristromata for their Provost 

 at 2is. 6d. the dozen. The price of these coverings seems 

 to indicate a linen fabric, but I am entirely in the dark as to 

 its meaning ; and at Cookesden in the same year, a place 

 on the locality of which I am as yet unable to be precise, 

 Murles cloth for sheeting, an article which is quite obscure to 

 me, is bought at 22s. the dozen. 



In 1654 the owner of Mounthall buys two qualities of 

 Bowsell, one at 13^. the dozen, the other at 7^., respectively, 

 designated as fine and coarse. In 1633 Eton buys Brunswick 

 at los. for the boys' table-cloths; and in 1656 King's College 

 buys Brunswick linen at 8.y. the dozen, probably for kitchen 

 use. In 1661 Hugat is bought at Winchester at 5.$-. the dozen, 

 nearly the lowest-priced article which I have found ; and in 

 the same year and place Brins linen is bought at 34^. In 1663 

 King's College buys Russy cloth at 6s. the dozen for rubbing 

 plate, and in the same year Garlick Holland is bought at i^s. 

 Fenbridge brown is found in 1623 as material for the Eton 

 boys' table-linen, Ost cloth in 1603 at 9^., and Shepherd's cloth, 

 a rather high-priced material, in 1605, 1608, and 1619, at an 

 average of 28^. ^d. 



After canvas, linen and Holland, the commonest technical 

 name in my accounts is Lockram. In the fifteenth and most 



