696 SUNDRIES. 



3.$-. 6d. to 35. From 1640 to 1652 it is from 45. icd. to 

 4^., .though in the first of those years New College gives 

 only 3^. ^d. for 'a black jack for the choristers.' In 1656, 

 Eton College gives 5^.; in 1674, ys. GX/.; in 1684, 4s. 6d.\ 

 and in 1697 a drinking-jack costs New College Ss. In 

 1636 King's College pays 11 s. for a large flagon, and in 

 1670 Eton College los. In 1654 Corpus Christt College in 

 Oxford buys black drinking-pots at 2s. a dozen. Perhaps 

 a beaded stone-jug at is. 4^., in 1637, was also a drinking 

 vessel. 



It seems that at table each person had his own knife, 

 perhaps his own fork. But in 1601 Lord Spencer bought two 

 dozen forks at 75-. 6d. the dozen. The purchase of knives by 

 the case or the dozen does not, as far as my accounts are 

 concerned, begin before 1626, when a case costs Eton College 

 Ss. 6d. In 1629 the same corporation gives Ss. 4d. In 1641 

 Caryll of Harting pays 305-. for a case, by far the highest 

 price which I have found. In 1633 a 'dozen case knives' 

 costs $s. 6af., and this entry suggests that the dozen and the 

 case were the same. In 1636 the case is 9^., in 1638 ios., in 

 1644 I2J., in 1649 105. 6d. the dozen, all these four notes 

 coming from Eton College. In 1652 a case at New College is 

 14^.; in 1656, IQS. 6d. at Eton College, where it is I2s. 6d. in 

 1659. In 1659 Eton College pays icd. each for four knives. 

 In 1661 Winchester College pays at near the rate of 14^. $d. 

 a dozen. In 1662 the Eton price is qs., the Oxford Js. In 

 1663 Master pays i2s. for a dozen with the case. In 1666 the 

 All Souls College Warden has a case at 14^. In 1669 Win- 

 chester College gives i6s. the dozen, in 1670 i6s. 6d. In 1676 

 All Souls College pays ics. a case. In 1777 a dozen are 

 bought at Eton College for 6s., a case at All Souls College for 

 js. 6d., and another at Ss. 6d., while Winchester College pays 

 i6s. But in 1679 All Souls College gives i6s., Winchester 

 College Ss. In 1680 Eton College pays 6s. id. for a case, in 

 1681 Winchester College 14^. a dozen, and >js. 6d. for forks, 

 and next year forks at the same rate. In 1684 Winchester 



