742 SUNDRIES. 



The highest price during the whole period is at Winchester, 

 when the College gives I2s. for this article. In 1653 and 

 1657 it costs los. at New College, and in 1664 the same price 

 at Oriel College. The rise in price is marked, for most of the 

 purchases throughout the whole period are made at Oxford 

 and Cambridge. Sometimes the corporation made a bargain, 

 but as time went on, and capitalist mechanics began to 

 improve their position, prices became customary. 



Among the duties imposed on King's College, Cambridge, 

 perhaps among the compensations which balanced the manorial 

 privileges which the alien priories had, and descended as 

 liabilities to the College which was founded on the confiscation 

 of these priories, was the obligation of building the parish 

 pound. I have never seen this liability except on the King's 

 College estate, for in my third volume, pp. 579, 580, there are 

 charges for the pound and stocks at Wawes Wootton (as it 

 should be spelt) and Grantchester, two King's College estates. 

 In the seventeenth century the charges became more serious. 



In 1608 this College sets up a pound at West Wrotham 

 which cost 4 i6s.\ in 1636 it built a new pound at Grant- 

 Chester at a charge of ,10 6s. ^d. ; in 1641 it did the same 

 function at Lessingham and paid 8 ; in 1668 Colt's Hall cost 

 them only ^5 ; in 1681 they built a pound at Combe and 

 paid 10 for it. These illustrations of social life and local 

 government are curious. Very likely, in the case of other 

 corporations or private individuals, the construction and repair 

 of these enclosures was put into the bailiff's or steward's petty 

 cash. But King's College, Cambridge, whatever else it did, 

 kept careful accounts. It is highly probable that the outlay 

 was remunerative, that the charge was more than met by the 

 income derived from manorial fines, and even, after adequate 

 detention, by the confiscation of those waifs and strays and 

 trespassers whose owners were ignorant of their place, or 

 whose appropriators had decamped. 



There are still some items, found with tolerable frequency, 

 on which I must comment. The principal of these are Ian- 



