682 SUNDRIES. 



They are of all kinds and prices, the purpose of the article 

 being constantly expressed. .1 have found them, with the 

 accompanying keys, as high as 295., while a commoner kind is 

 entered at ^d. They are quoted merely as locks, and as stock 

 locks, as hanging locks, as gate locks, as settle locks, as pad- 

 locks, as horse locks, as double stock locks with back spring, 

 and as pull-back locks. There are very few articles which are 

 more suggestive than these conveniences, and it may be worth 

 while to go through them with some detail. Our forefathers 

 locked everything up, and took elaborate pains to prevent any 

 persons, besides those who had the right to enter, from 

 tampering with what they thought it discreet to put under 

 lock and key. 



The highest-priced article, referred to above, is a lock and 

 keys for the plate chest of Oriel College. These keys were 

 probably three or four, and were in the custody of the Provost, 

 the treasurer, and some other officials, whose presence was 

 necessary in order that the chest might be opened. In 1692 

 Winchester College gives IQS. for a lock to the garden. In 

 1593 a lock to a door costs Magdalen College 8s., and the 

 same price is paid for a lock and key by New College in 1622. 

 In 1630 All Souls College gives Js. 4d. for a lock to a 

 chamber. In 1670 Winchester College pays 6s. for a great 

 lock, and in 1671 Js. for two new locks and keys. In 1624 

 the churchwardens of S. Mary Bredman, Canterbury, pay 

 1 25-. 8d. for a lock to the church door. 



Locks of a more or less expensive kind were put, princi- 

 pally by College authorities, on the pantry, the buttery, the 

 cellar, the tennis-court, the vestry, the closet, the larder, the 

 workhouse, the kitchen, the garden and the alms-box. Besides 

 those of which note is taken, locks, even now in use, were put 

 to the doors of the muniment-room or treasury, and to the 

 chests and hutches where money and deeds were kept. One 

 elaborate iron chest with its lock and two padlocks was 

 presented as a money box by Bodley to the Curators of his 

 Library, and is still preserved. 



