704 SUNDRIES. 



1628 it is bought in London for the Lord Mayor's feast at 

 24^. the dozen. In 1633 the owner of Mendham pays at the 

 rate of i6s. There is no purchase from this date till 1674, 

 when New College buys a large quantity of wine vinegar at 

 24.$-., and in 1683, besides buying in bulk, other quantities at 

 the rate of nine years before. In 1685 New College buys 

 both wine and malt vinegar, the former at I2s. the dozen, the 

 latter at 14^. the barrel, that is at about the price of the aleger 

 at Cambridge seventy years before. In 1689, vinegar, not 

 specified as wine, costs los. the dozen at Cuckfield ; and in 

 1701, a small quantity is bought at Foxcomb in Hants, again 

 at 24-y. 



In 1586 Wharton of Kirkby Stephen buys ten firkins of 

 vinegar at los. each. In 1589 Lord North gives 6s. for 

 a runlet of vinegar, the contents of which are said to be 

 ten gallons. From this date, till near the conclusion of 

 the period, wine vinegar is not purchased in bulk, for it 

 is not till 1677 that New College begins to purchase in large 

 quantities, and then evidently in London. This College buys 

 one hogshead at 70.9., and pays for carriage and wharfage (that 

 is by water) 6s. id. ; and another hogshead, including the 

 carriage, for 86s. $d. These are said to be wine vinegar. 

 The College also buys two kilderkins of vinegar, here plainly 

 malt, at 7^., this being the old price of aleger. In 1680 it 

 buys a hogshead, carriage paid, at 8oj. ; and a barrel of 

 vinegar, plainly malt, and two kilderkins for 13^. In 1681 

 it buys a hogshead of wine vinegar at 6js. 6d., and a barrel of 

 beer vinegar at i$s. 6d. In 1682 it gives Jos. for a hogs- 

 head and I4s. each for two barrels of the inferior produce, 

 purchasing also ioj quarts for 5^. %d. The latter is obviously 

 wine vinegar. In 1689, when the barrel is 14^., and in 1690, 

 1697 and 1699, when it is i6s., the college is evidently acqui- 

 escing in malt vinegar. 



THE BREWHOUSE. This, in most private houses in the 

 country, and in most of the Cambridge colleges, was an 

 important adjunct to the hall and kitchen. In Oxford most 



