732 SUNDRIES. 



455-. in 1590. In 1670 a cloak cost 42^. The most expensive 

 are bought by Lord North. 



There are a great many kinds of stockings or hose mentioned 

 in these accounts. There are stockings without any distinctive 

 names, Jersey stockings, Worsted stockings, woollen stockings, 

 mingled, linen, and thread stockings, riding, white serge riding, 

 and coloured stockings, and children's stockings. There are 

 silk stockings for men, women, and boys. There are hose 

 without any other name, milled hose, and silk hose. I suppose 

 that there is no real distinction between stockings and hose. 

 Lastly there are socks, but this word in the seventeenth 

 century had a different meaning from what it bears in the 

 nineteenth. 



Stockings and hose, not otherwise distinguished, are cheaper 

 than any except woollen stockings, of which I have only two 

 entries, in 1653 at is. i~L\d.> and in 1657 at 35. Towards the 

 end of the period they become dearer. I have found hose from 

 2s. to I2J., omitting one entry. This is of white hose bought 

 by Shuttleworth at is. %d. in 1616, and perhaps for children. 

 They are a good deal dearer when bought as boot hose. Such 

 were those at $s. 6d. in 1604, at Js. 6d. in 1632, at izs. in 1658, 

 and at *js. in 1661. So are most likely those in 1701. 

 Stockings are with one exception from 2s. to Js. a pair, the 

 exception being a purchase for a dwarf in 1604, at is. yd. 

 Here some of the higher-priced articles after 1650 are most 

 likely kinds which would, if the writer of the account had been 

 precise, have come under the other heads. An average from 

 fourteen entries of hose is 4s. ij^/., from twenty entries of 

 stockings- is 3^. g$d. Milled hose are Js. in 1650, and 4^. in 

 1651. 



Worsted stockings, of which there are twenty-eight entries, 

 tend to decline in price as time goes on. They are found first in 

 1610, and noted last in 1698. They vary in price from 35-. 6d. 

 to T2.9., and we are sometimes told that they are fine. The 

 commonest colour is grey. Once in 1659, when they are i6s. 

 a pair, they are said to have silk tops. Even in 1680, when 



