750 SUNDRIES. 



at the cost of 177. In 1664 it gives i for a spur royal ; in 

 1674, 45,?. for a double spur royal. In 1660 it gave, as I have 

 already observed, a pair of gloves and two spur royals to the 

 Chancellor. 



It was a custom to hang a curtain before such pictures as 

 the owners set value on. A curtain and rings cost 8s. in 1626. 

 A carpet of darnax costs 6s. 6d. in 1583 ; one of green cloth 

 in 1584, 2$s. ^d. ; and another in 1692, los. 6d. In 1584 a 

 green cloth of the window is 6s. 8d. Double casements are 

 5.$-. 4/ in 1598, and 5^. io\d. in 1602. Thirteen red skins are 

 bought for making cushions at about is. id. each in 1635. 

 Bell wheels cost I2J. each in 1624, and the cording of a pair 

 of scales 2s. ^d. in 1604. 



In 1583 Corpus Christi College buys a copy of the Oxford 

 Statutes from the Vice- Chancellor's man for zs., and in 1589 

 Oriel College gets a copy from the bedel for is. A spinning- 

 wheel costs 8d. and ^d. in 1587; 2s. 4d. in 1615. Sail needles 

 are $s. a hundred in 1694. Clock wire is at various prices; 

 7*/. a pound in 1584 ; icd. and is. 4,d. in 1587 ; 2s. in 1604 ; 

 in 1607, is.] in 1635, is. ^d. 



In the charges for the King's College organ in 1605, five 

 pounds of white wire is at iod., 7 Ibs. of yellow wire at i s. 8d., 

 and 22 Ibs. of tin glass at 3^. White wire is I suppose iron 

 tinned, yellow wire brass, but I have no idea what tin glass is. 

 In 1653 plaster of Paris is 4s. a cwt, a lattice to a larder 4^., 

 to a latrina, 2s. ; while in 1602, lattice by the foot is ^\d. In 

 1665 a voider of sweetmeats is 2os. 



I have not perhaps in this long chapter on the Sundries 

 contained in my sixth volume noted every particular. I have 

 however at least taken all which serves the purpose of enabling 

 my reader to reconstruct the equipments of a seventeenth- 

 century house, and to realise what were the conveniences, far 

 short indeed of modern experience, but undoubtedly much in 

 advance of what existed a century previous. 



The sundries contained in Houghton's first six years, for he 

 does not give these prices in the last six years of his volumes, 



