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6d., a purchase of Shuttleworth. In 1585 Corpus Christi 

 College again gives $s. f r its President's bit, Lord North 

 paying 3^. 6d. In 1587 there are five prices from is. $d. to 3^. 

 In 1589 Lord North buys ten, giving us. for the whole. 

 Between 1610 and 1671 the price varies from 2s. to $s. 6d. 

 The difference is due to material and workmanship. They are 

 sometimes tinned, as in 1594. Snaffles are found separately 

 and with bits. In 1596 the two together are bought in 

 London for Js. id., and the article must have been highly 

 finished. They generally cost from is. to Sd. In 1659 a 

 bridle and saddle together cost is. icd. 



Bridles vary in price according to workmanship. They are 

 as low as is. and as high as i6s., the last-named being the 

 bridle of the Provost of King's College in 1613. So one in 

 1594 for the President of Corpus Christi College costs $s. ^d. 

 One in 1669, at 6s., is bought by Eton College. The average 

 of ten entries is 4s. id. 



Spurs are from $d. to 3^. the pair. They are generally at 

 is. The average of eight entries is a little over is. 4\d. 

 Stirrups are at lod. in 1599, 3^.4^. in 1622. But the latter 

 are copper. Stirrup-leathers cost is. in 1610, girths 3^. a 

 dozen in 1602, and a martingale Sd. in 1603. A surcingle and 

 pad are lod. in 1667, and the trappings of the President of 

 Corpus Christi College, in 1589, Ss. zd. 



In these riding journeys the necessary clothing was carried 

 by the riders, often on an additional horse, occasionally called 

 a male or sumpter horse, from the package he carried. I find 

 these males in 1611 at 33 s. 4d., in 1615 at 22J. id. The 

 ordinary package taken by travellers was a cloak-bag, so 

 named because it supplied the means of protection from 

 weather. The cloak-bag was of various prices, no doubt 

 according to size, for it is dearer in the beginning of the 

 period than it was at about the beginning of the Civil War, 

 when the cloak-bag disappears from my accounts, my last 

 entry being in 1641. The average from twenty-five entries of 

 cloak-bags is 4s. %\d. 



