734 SUNDRIES. 



1625 and 1649. From this time the price varies between 

 3^. lod. and 7^., women's shoes being sometimes 9^. and los. 

 Servants' shoes, even after the rise, are from 2s. 6d. to 2s. 8d. 

 Spanish shoes, 2s. 8d. in 1598 and 3^. 6d. in 1617, are from 

 4s. 6d. to 5y. after the rise. Waxed shoes are found only 

 between 1654 and 1666. An average of twenty entries before 

 the Civil War gives is. ii^d. the pair, the average of eighteen 

 entries after the war is 4s. n^d. The average of Spanish 

 shoes is 4s. 5i<^-j of waxed shoes, taken from ten entries, is 

 4s. 8d. A pair of hose and shoes together in 1616 cost 5-y. 

 At this time hose and shoes cost about the same money. In 

 1674 and 1675, Duxbury, the gunpowder dealer in London, 

 buys army shoes at from 28s. to 22s. the dozen, buying others 

 for his own use at 4s. a pair. 



Boots are again of varied price. They are bought at Chester 

 at 3^. 4d. in 1585, and at 3^. 6d. at Theydon Gernon in 1604. 

 Before the Civil War the highest price is 1 1 s. The average of 

 twelve entries during this period is 8s. io^d. The average 

 of eleven entries after that period is 15^. $\d. Waxed boots 

 are bought three times. Here the average is 2$s. ^d. A pair of 

 slippers is 4s. in 1660; a pair of spatterdashes is IQS. in 1693. 



A shirt is bought for 3^. 2\d. in 1603 ; and one for a boy in 

 1604 is is. 8d. A frieze jerkin is 4.9. i\d. in 1603 ; a flannel 

 waistcoat $s. 6d. in 1585. A quilted cap is u. 4^. in 1688 ; a 

 skull-cap is. icd. in 1588 ; and a wrought cap 155. in 1616. A 

 girdle is 4s. 6d. in 1630; a leather belt los. in 1659 ; a hair- 

 belt los. in 1660; a waist-belt 28s. in 1666; a silver belt 48^. 

 in 1665, and a black fringed belt 55^. in 1655. A woman's 

 hood is 75. in 1667, bone lace ^d. a yard in 1620, and gold 

 lace 3^. and i2s. an ounce in 1620. 



Here it maybe convenient to refer to such entries of sewing- 

 silk as have been found. I have found it twenty-seven times 

 in my accounts, and the average of these entries is 2s. \\d. the 

 ounce. It is quoted as low as is. 4d. the ounce, and as high 

 as 3^. But the commonest price is that which I have drawn 

 from all the entries. 



