SUNDRIES. 



music, costs Js. 6d., and eight singing-books at the same college 

 cost together 44^. 6d. in 1671. A hanging-lamp in 1625 is 

 13^. ^d. ; a vestry comb is is. in 1692. 



In connection with religious offices, a marriage licence costs 

 us. $d. in 1585, and a wedding ring 2os. in 1665. On this 

 latter occasion Master bought five cornelian rings at 2J. each 

 to give away, put on black silk stockings, bought a new periwig, 

 wore his sword in a silver belt, and had on a beaver hat. 



BED-ROOM FURNITURE. There are several entries of bed- 

 steads in the accounts. There is the ordinary bedstead, no 

 further designated, the standing joined bed, the folding bed, 

 the truckle bed, the boy's bedstead, and the wrought bed, by 

 which I suppose is meant one that is carved. Then there 

 is the material designated as a cedar bed. I find that which 

 Shakspere has made familiar, a standing bed and truckle 

 bed, and what are perhaps the same things, a bedstead and 

 settle, a bed for the President of Corpus, and another for his 

 servant. 



A standing joined bed costs zos. in 1588. In 1587 Lord 

 North's cedar bedstead is bought for 50^. In 1589 a bedstead 

 is 23.$-. ; in 1591, 24$-. ; both being bought by All Souls College. 

 In 1594 All Souls College gives 22^., and King's College iSs. 

 In 1595 All Souls College pays 33^. 8^., and in 1596 buys two 

 at 30.$-. In 1597 the same College gives 26 s. 8d. ; and in 1604, 

 155. In 1609 this College buys at 59^. In 1610 King's College 

 gives 8s., probably for a servant. In 1613 All Souls College 

 gives 55^. In 1621 Corpus Christi College pays I2J. In 1624 

 Magdalen College buys at 2,8s. for one of the foundation. 

 In 1625 a walnut-tree bedstead, probably for the Provost, is 

 bought by King's College for 8oj. In 1633 Corpus Christi 

 College pays 29^.; in 1637, 30^. In 1659 a bedstead with a 

 buckram cover costs New College 27 s. In 1675 Master gives 

 33 s. 6d. for a folding bedstead, and in 1696 a wainscot bed- 

 stead is bought in London for 25^. 



Master pays 10 for his wrought bed in 1666. The 

 standing bed and truckle bed in 1608 cost 36^. 8d. ; the bed- 



