700 SUNDRIES. 



dearest by Winch ester College in 1630. In 1685 a new ladle costs 

 6s. The difference of price is, no doubt, principally due to 

 the size. I find besides a basting ladle at 6d. in 1584, and at 

 is. in 1653, and a filling ladle in 1627 at 5^. 6d. A broach is 

 4s. in 1587, a spit 6s. in 1594. The terms are not, I believe, 

 absolutely identical. 



Frying-pans are found at all prices, from is. 6d. and is. Sd. 

 in 1585, the earliest, to I2s. in 1698, the latest entry discovered. 

 The last purchase is made by Eton College. The nearest 

 approach to this high price is that given by New College in 

 1630, where a large frying-pan costs *js. One in 1610, bought 

 by S. John's College, is at $s. Generally they are from 2s. to $s. 



Meat was generally boiled in brass or copper kettles, in 

 iron pots, and occasionally perhaps in the kitchen copper. 

 Some of these copper and brass kettles, of which the weight 

 is given, have been already commented on. They vary in 

 size, and therefore in price. The most expensive, a great brass 

 kettle bought in London by New College in 1585, costs 

 44^. $d. Now a little time after this copper kettles are sold 

 at 8d. a pound in London, and this article at such a rate 

 would have weighed a little over 66 Ibs. In 1606, again, 

 another cost zos. 6d. But the general price of these larger 

 kettles is from IQS. to 14^., of the smaller from 2s. Sd. to 6s. Sd. 

 But in 1600 a copper costs 50^. 3</., and a new brass pot 505-., 

 a second brass pot in 1613 being bought for 24,?. An iron 

 pot is 4s. in 1608 and los. 6d. in 1698. Boilers are at $s. to 

 7^. in 1628. 



Gridirons are found five times. This article is purchased by 

 Corpus Christi College for 4^. yd. in 1597, for is. Sd. in 1608 

 at London, for us. in 1611, when it is bought by Corpus 

 Christi College, Oxford, for $s. 6d. at Eton in 1650, and for 

 js. 6d. at Winchester in 1687. The London purchase must 

 have been of a small article. In 1592 a brass pan is 4s. 6d. 

 at King's College. In 1597 Corpus Christi College buys a 

 baking-pan for us. 6d., and in 1610 a pan costs IGJ. at Cam- 

 bridge. In 1622 S. John's College buys six new brass fish-pans 



