BUILDING CONVENIENCES. 683 



Locks of various kinds are found in seventy-two of the years 

 dealt with in these volumes, and very often there are several 

 entries from the same place in the same year. Hanging locks 

 are perhaps padlocks, the latter name being occasionally found. 

 A hinge lock is most likely what was a common kind some 

 years ago, in which the key drew out a screw which was when 

 the lock was used turned into a double nut in two of the 

 joints which composed the lock. Such were probably also 

 gate locks. Horse locks, found early and late, are it seems con- 

 trivances to fasten a horse to a chain in pasture. The pull- 

 back lock of 1700 is most like a door lock which can be 

 opened from the inside by the hand but needs a key without. 



The householder of the seventeenth century also bought 

 hinges, not indeed so frequently or regularly as his ancestor 

 or predecessor did, but in sufficient numbers for illustrating 

 the custom and the price. Most of these articles are cheap 

 and under a shilling a pair. But All Souls College gives 2s. 6d. 

 for a pair to the Warden's parlour door; and in 1588, 5^. icd. 

 for a pair for the windows. In 1697 Caryll of Harting pays 

 6s. a pair to be put on the hall door. These hinges to prin- 

 cipal entrances are often very elaborate and enduring. Those 

 of many college gates and hall doors are frequently coeval 

 with, or not much later than, the foundation. 



Sometimes, in accordance with the growing disposition to 

 purchase work which has already been finished by the work- 

 man, doors are bought. Thus in 1611 New College buys a 

 new cellar door. In 1626 Corpus Christi College gives 50*. for 

 a new carved door to the hall, and this is probably still in use; 

 and in the same year, New College pays the same sum for a 

 new door to the library. 



There are a few entries of the price of paint. Of these the 

 commonest and cheapest are Spanish white, almost always 

 at is. the dozen Ibs., but once at 2s., and red ochre, generally 

 bought by the hundredweight and always at ys. 4^., once by 

 the bushel at 1 2s. 2d. Another cheap paint or wash is called 

 ' colour ' only, and is bought at Eton. White lead is at *jd. a 



