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in 1651 All Souls College gave 13 for a Turkey carpet. 

 This term, originally applied to the covering of a table, began 

 to be used for the covering to a chamber floor. The All Souls 

 College purchase was certainly made for the fellows' common 

 room. 



In the first year of this period King's College buys two 

 fair table planks for the hall. These are to be put on 

 trestles, and may have been for the inferior members of 

 the foundation. But they cost 305. ; and in 1587 a new table 

 obtained by the same society costs 40^. In 1590 Corpus 

 Christi College gives 41 s. for a high table in its own hall, and 

 a new table at All Souls College in the same year is obtained 

 for 13^. 4*/. In 1610 All Souls College gives j6s. ^d. for a 

 walnut drawing-table ; and in 1614 a wainscot-table, no doubt 

 in this case a high table, costs 13, the largest price which I 

 have found. Again, King's College buys a drawing-table of 

 walnut in 1615 for 4. In 1618 the Sub-warden's table at All 

 Souls College costs 6 12.?., the Sub-warden in this society, as 

 in others, having a table and companions to himself. In 1619 

 New College gives 58 s. for a drawing-table. Two hall-tables 

 with two kitchen-dressers are bought by Corpus Christi College 

 (here no douBt for the scholars of the foundation) for IOO.T., 

 which is probably about 25^. each. In 1640 King's College 

 pays 35 s. for a new table, and in 1652 the same price. In 

 1701 All Souls College gives $os. $d. each for two tables. 

 These are all or nearly all the high-priced tables which the 

 accounts record, and all are in my judgement intended for the 

 dining hall. There is only one table of considerable price 

 which appears to be for private use, and this is one bought in 

 1619 for Mr. Edwards by New College at a cost of 48^. 



There are many cheaper tables, frequently designated as 

 round, which appear to be bought for the library, for private 

 chambers, or for some convenience in the hall for the fellows, 

 as for instance a stand for the basin and ewer. These round 

 tables vary in price from 6s. to 2oj. A side table to hold the 

 \\ashing apparatus in 1606 costs 9*. Sd. Other tables, which 



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