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is 'jd. in 1588, 3.?. ^d. in 1594, 4^. in 1602. In 1599 the 

 Navy accounts tell us that $s. 4^. is the price of a grind- 

 stone four feet in diameter, 3^. the price of a smaller one. 

 Hoops are 4^. a hundred in 1594 and 1595, a pump shoe 

 is. in 1591, wedges \\d. each in 1599. Meal sieves are *]d. 

 in 1587, 4</. in 1589, $d. in 1598, and is. ^d. in 1646. A 

 candle- box is 6d. in one place in 1602, and is. 6d. in another ; 

 in 1617 it is $s. ^d. A tinder-box is is. in 1618 and 1639, 

 ICY/, in 1635. 



A baker's peel is is. in 1607, is. 6d. in 1611, $s. ^d. in 

 1665. The last is bought at Winchester. A flasket is 2s. $d. 

 in 1611, is.6d. in 1617. In 1615 Corpus Christi College gives 

 8j. for seven boxes to put in the College tower, in 1621 pays 

 5*. for a College chest, and in 1627 gives 22s. for two cases 

 of boxes for the tower, no doubt to hold deeds. In 1612 

 Shuttleworth pays 26s. %d. for a sealed chest. In 1647 All 

 Souls College buys a new chest for 15^. 



Some articles may be referred to the bursary. Money-bags 

 cost from ^d. to i s. ^d. They were generally made of leather, 

 and some, older than the time I am writing of, are in the College 

 chests. The average of nine entries is 8}</. A leather satchel 

 in 1620, with perhaps the same purpose, is 8d. A quart of ink 

 in 1698 costs is. ; a standish in 1621, 2s. 6d. Almanacks are on 

 an average id. each. Pens in 1683 are 2s. the hundred. Wafers 

 in 1649 are i s. i id. ; in 1650, 2s. a pound. Sealing-wax is i s. ^d. 

 a pound in 1586, 1602, and 1603. Pin-dust in 1583 is 8d. a 

 pound. In 1593 a P en anc * inkhorn is ^d. ; a note-book in 

 1621 is is. ; a sand-box in 1658, lod. A pair of compasses 

 in 1621 is $s. Two College seals in 1648 cost iO2s. 6d. An 

 average of eight entries of counters is i s. 8i*/. the set, and the 

 entries are found till 1654, for in this year Corpus Christi 

 College gives *js. for two boxes and six dozen ivory counters. 



Scales and weights, especially gold weights, were of great 

 importance in the bursary. Foreign money, particularly at 

 the end of the century, circulated largely in England, or 

 perhaps we hear more of it when monetary questions became 



