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four yards of damask at All Souls College in 1604 at 4^. ; 

 the green damask cushion for the founder's picture at All 

 Souls College in 1609 at 12s. 6d. ; the green cloth for the bur- 

 sar's apartments at All Souls College in 1611 at ;j. ; the 

 crimson grogram for pulpit cushions at #\d. bought by the 

 churchwardens of S. Mary Bredman, Canterbury, in 1615 ; the 

 gingilene and green peropus at $s. 6d. for the communion 

 table and cushion at the same church in 1617, with the lining of 

 colour holmes (fustian) at i s. $d. ; the broad cloth for the 

 chapel table at los. 6d. bought by All Souls College in 1619 ; 

 the cloth for the communion table bought by the Scale church- 

 wardens in 1624 at 3^. 6d. a yard. The Bristol peripetasma, 

 purchased by Magdalen College in 1626, thirty ells in length, 

 at qs. id., was probably a hanging ; as were also the forty-one 

 yards of blue perpetuana for a chapel screen in King's College at 

 2s. 6d. in 1633. Green cloth for the Warden's table, Winchester, 

 costs us. 6d. a yard in 1646. Again, there is Bristol carpet- 

 ing at $s. in 1657. I conclude that the thirty-six yards of 

 damask, with the silk fringe and lining, bought for the chapel 

 at King's College in 1662, was also of a woollen fabric. Hangings 

 for the poser's chamber at Eton, 33 i yards, are bought in 

 1665 at 2s. gd. the yard. Damask is bought by Master in 

 1673, for curtains, at tis. ; crimson damask, for the organ-loft 

 at Eton, at los. 6d. in 1692, and for the Provost's and Vice- 

 Provost's stall in the same building (1697) at 2os., though this 

 may have been, from the price, silk. In 1702 the Provost's 

 stall in the same place is supplied with twelve yards of damask 

 at ics. 6d. 



Flannel does not occur in my earlier volumes, and I have 

 only found it three times in the present, in 1671 at 2s., in 1688, 

 ulicn it was ur. 6d. and 2s. the yard, and in 1700, when it 

 2s. o\d. Blankets called fine are found in 1651 and 1652 at 

 25*. the pair, in 1655 at 24*., in 1698 at 35?., 24*., and i6s. 



Throughout the whole period, stuffs were purchased by the 

 consumer and served out to the men's or women's tailors, a 

 custom which prevailed in country places to recent times. 



