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doubt to fit with the old irons, for $os. In 1675 he bought 

 another coach for 35 icxr., this being the last year of his 

 accounts. 



In 1687 a chariot is bought at Cuckfield for 28, and a 

 ' mourning charett ' in London for 25 los. These appear 

 to have been slighter structures, for there is no reason to 

 believe that the cost of these articles was likely to diminish. 



The original harness of the Provost's coach must have been 

 a very rough affair. The traces I suspect were of strong rope, 

 and the collar and harness of very rude workmanship. I 

 find no harness till 1670, when two sets, each for two horses, 

 were bought at 4 and 6. In 1672 a set costs 5 los. 

 In 1676 the College gives ;iofora new harness, and in 1682, 

 11 6s. 



I have condensed the information which I have to give 

 about the seventeenth century stable and coach-house within 

 as narrow limits as possible ; nor have I space here to con- 

 struct, as these materials would allow me to construct, such an 

 account of this side of social life as would enable my reader 

 to see how journeys were undertaken, how the business of a 

 great estate was managed, and how the rulers of the corpora- 

 tion bestowed, to the best of their power, such splendour as 

 they could confer on the head of the society. And at this 

 time, too, the College was threatened with the loss of their 

 it of free election, the Stewarts claiming to appoint their 

 Provost, as representing their founder. 



'1 HI: CHAPEL. I have but little to say on this part of the 

 subject, for though the entries in my accounts are significant, 

 they arc comparatively few. In these notices I shall include 

 such particulars as have come before me in connection with 

 parish churches. I may state, perhaps, that such particulars 

 accidental to my enquiry, which is primarily of agricul- 

 ture, food, and labour. 



The services and appointments of a chapel or church, in the 

 latter part of the sixteenth century and for about the first 

 thirty-five years of the seventeenth century, were plain and 



