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are not further designated, cost from 3.$-. 4d. to 25^. Two 

 tables called little are at loj. each in 1632 and 1636. Both 

 are bought by King's College, and the latter is called wain- 

 scot. 



Basins and ewers, purchased for common use in the hall, are 

 found seven times, at prices ranging from 6s. 8d. to 13^. They 

 were probably metal, most likely latten, perhaps brass. 

 Twice a ewer is bought alone, at 35. and 3^. 6d. At last, in 

 1679, perhaps as a concession to growing refinement, Eton 

 College put a pewter cistern in the hall at a cost of 45^. 

 for the convenience of the fellows, and in 1681 two stone 

 cisterns for the scholars, no doubt for open-air ablutions, 

 for which it paid 75^ io^/. Up to recent memory, the 

 Winchester scholars washed at an open-air cistern, to which 

 they gave the name of Moab. 



Common trenchers, which occur regularly in the accounts 

 till a little after the Restoration, and in one place till nearly 

 the end of my period, are generally from id. to 6d. the dozen. 

 I have found them once at 8^d., once at 8d., once at 7f </., once 

 at 6\d. But I suppose that these articles were of superior 

 quality to those ordinarily purchased. That rise in prices 

 which is generally noticed after the first quarter of the seven- 

 teenth century is noticeable here. Up to 1601 they are 

 occasionally as cheap as id., during the next twenty years 

 they are commonly at ^d. Then they rise to $d. as a rule. 

 Between 1583 and 1662 they occur in twenty-one years. 

 They were no doubt beechen squares, as they remained till 

 recent memory at some of our public schools. 



It is only in the seventeenth century that I find what are 

 plainly chairs for the head and fellows at the College dining- 

 table. The first entry is in 1609, where a great chair is bought 

 for the Provost of King's College at a cost of i8s. 8d., and a little 

 back chair for 8s. These however are possibly for the private 

 sitting-room of the College head. In 1626 a Russia leather 

 chair is bought by New College for i8j., but this again is I believe 

 for the Warden. But in 1639 six chairs are bought by Eton 



