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are said to be French. But in my researches I have come 

 across an account of beaver fur, sold in London in 1638. 

 The quantity is large, being 1175! Ibs., and the prices are 

 various. The highest rate is got for old fur, 14^. a pound. 

 New is priced at I2s. The largest quantity is sold at us. 6d. 

 Two small parcels are at los. and 9^. 



The fashion of periwigs came in with the Restoration, and 

 Master followed the fashion, having with this political event 

 apparently thrown over his Puritan training, and buying 

 Hudibras, and I regret to say, the travesty of Virgil, in suc- 

 cession to Baxter's Saint's Rest and Hartlib's Husbandry. 

 There is a sign of his old associations however, in his pur- 

 chasing in the same year that he bought his first wig the 

 speeches of ten condemned persons, that is of the regicides. 



Master buys wigs almost as frequently as he does beaver hats. 

 In 1 660 his first costs 3. In 1663 he gives $ ; in 1664, 3 los. ; 

 another being bought in the same year at London, and by 

 another person, for .5. In 1665 he is married, and gives $ 

 for another. In 1666 he pays 4 los. ; in 1667, 4 los. ; in 

 1668, 7 IQS. ; in 1670, 5 7*. 6d. ; in 1672, 5 5*. ; in 1673, 

 4 i6s. ; in 1675, when his accounts close, 4 los. id. In 1686 

 a periwig in London costs only 25^., and in 1697 hair for a 

 Spanish wig cost Caryll of Harting i6s. In 1675 one Duxbury 

 buys two periwigs at 35^. and ftfs. Some articles of clothing 

 occur only in early times. In 1583 Lord North gives 50^. for 

 a doublet ; in 1584, 57 s. But Lord Spencer in 1600 only pays 

 4,?. lod. Bombast for stuffing this kind of dress costs is. $d. a 

 pound in 1587. Points are id. a dozen in 1596, $d. in 1598. 

 Buttons are $d. a dozen in 1590, $d. in 1594 and 1597* i$d. in 

 1598. These purchases are made by Shuttleworth. In 1587 

 gold buttons are 2s. 4d. a dozen; I presume gilt. In 1600 

 Lord Spencer gives 4d. a dozen. Another article of dress 

 which became obsolete at an early period are netherstocks. 

 The price between 1584 and 1592 varies from is. icd. the pair 

 to 8s. 6d., the average of ei^ht entries being 4s. id. 



Cloaks are 505. in 1587, 23*. and /oj. in 1588, 575. in 1589, 



