CLOTHING OF VARIOUS KINDS. 



A warming pan costs 6.$-. &/. in 1614, and icxr. in 1680. A 

 looking-glass is bought for 2s. 6d. in 1637, for Js. in 1667, 

 for 34.$-. in 1675, when the purchase is made by Master. 

 But the most considerable purchases of looking-glasses are 

 made by Lord Lovelace in 1688, at Oxford, near which city 

 this nobleman had an estate. He gives 34 for a 42-inch 

 glass, table, and stand ; 30 for a 4O-inch, with the same 

 appendages; 14 for a 34-inch glass in a gilt frame; 4$s. for 

 a 2i-inch glass in a walnut frame; 40^. for a 19-inch glass, 

 and 2$s. for a i5-inch in similar frames. He gives 8s. a piece 

 for four dressing glasses, the dimensions of which are not 

 given, ii os. for a japanned table and stand, 8s. each for two 

 wainscot tables, and 33^. for an olive-wood table. Finally, 

 he pays 4$s. for a walnut chest, an indication that even so 

 considerable a person as Lovelace used chests as we do 

 drawers. 



In 1696 Caryll of Harting buys two pairs of stands from 

 the cabinet-makers of Westmeon, Hants, at i6s. $d. each. In 

 this agricultural village, and my native place, all industries 

 other than those connected with the cultivation of the soil 

 have disappeared. But for a long time there was a relic of 

 a local industry in the turning of beechen bowls and dishes. 

 Two centuries ago the village manufactured the higher class 

 of furniture. In 1697 King's College bought the Provost a 

 marble chimney-piece at a cost of 16 is. Twelve chairs and 

 hangings cost 22s. each in 1671. 



I may here add a few notes about library charges. In 

 1596 a lock to the library costs 2s. ^d. ; and a door in 1626, 

 5oj. In 1604 Corpus Christi College buys fourteen library 

 tables at 3^. 8f*/. each, and studs its library door with nails at 

 the cost of 4s. 6\d. the hundred. In 1700 a large press for 

 books is bought by King's College for 22s. In 1699 the same 

 corporation buys a skeleton case for 52^., and the glass to 

 it for 2os. 



CLOTHING OF VARIOUS KINDS. Besides the materials for 

 clothing discussed under linen and woollen fabrics, a number 



