708 SUNDRIES. 



Magdalen College one wine-barrel for 22s. In 1630 Eton 

 College buys five oaken tuns at Js., and in 1632 gives 2 for 

 a tun. But the latter entry may be in the sense of a brew- 

 ing-vat. Barm-pails are found in 1587 at ic*/., and in 1689 at 

 is., the yeast selling at icd. a pail. Hop-baskets, varying in 

 price from is. <\d. to 35. between 1596 and 1665, and from 

 6s. 6d. to 7^. between 1668 and 1680, have been found eleven 

 times. 



Hop-strainers have been noted in 1690 at 4^. 6d., and 

 in 1700 at 4s. Tubs, apparently for the brevvhouse, are at 6s. 

 in 1611 and 1618. A funnel is 6d. in 1603. Tunnels are 

 at various prices, is. ^d. and $s. in 1595, is. %d. in 1601, and 

 6d. in 1675. 



Brass cocks, sometimes specially noted as for beer, are 

 found at prices from is. zd. to $s. 6d. They seem to have 

 been an invention or an importation of the seventeenth 

 century. I find them first in 1616 at is. id. and 3^., at 

 $s. M. in 1619, at 2s. and $s. ^d. (in the latter case called 

 great) in 1629, at 2s. 6d. in 1634 and 1637, at 2s. $d. in 1672, 

 at 4s. in 1674, at 2s. 6d. in 1683, 1698 and 1702. There is an 

 entry of a brass cock in 1626 at $s. 6d., no object being in- 

 dicated, and of a brass cork to a pipe in 1611 at 6s. In 1596 

 a spigot is quoted at 5^. 6d., and in 1611 two beer casks, 

 probably the old wooden sort, at 6d. each. In the same 

 year sixty spigots and faucets are bought for i6s., i.e. at 

 a little over $d. each. 



In 1698 and 1699 bungs are priced at a shilling a dozen. 

 Cork is occasionally purchased throughout the whole period, 

 but without any information as to its design ; and it is fre- 

 quently used for fishing-nets. Hoops, i. e. wooden hoops, are 

 at 4s. a hundred in 1594 and 1595. The only other article 

 which seems to me to be especially connected with the brew- 

 house is an ale-standard, bought by New College in 1675 at a 

 cost of 3^. 6d. 



THE STABLE AND COACH-HOUSE. Most of the business 

 of private persons and corporations was carried out on horse- 



