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infrequently to 2s. After the Civil War was over the price 

 falls to below the average at which it stood before the Laudian 

 influence was at work. After the Restoration it rises again ; 

 but now the occasional entries refer to the new luxury which 

 growing wealth suggested. The average price of the forty-two 

 entries is is. 6^d. the pound. 



During four consecutive years, 1693-1696, Houghton gives 

 the price of wax, yellow by the hundredweight, white by the 

 pound. In the first year yellow wax is 113^. gd. the cwt. ; in 

 the next year the price is 1 1 2 s. ; in the next the average is 

 135.$-. ; and in the fourth and last 138^. White wax is almost 

 unchanged at is. lod. the pound. 



Oil is found thirty times in twenty-eight years, some of the 

 earlier entries being doubtfully of salad oil, as for example 

 some of Shuttlevvorth's. In 1632 Caryll buys what is no 

 doubt salad oil, as indeed it is said to be in the following 

 year. In 1638 D'Ewes buys a small cask of what he calls 

 excellent salad oil at $s. a gallon. In 1677 and onwards it is 

 frequently purchased by New College and at advancing prices, 

 being twice described as Florence. The rise is very consider- 

 able. Taking an average of twenty-four entries of what is 

 undoubtedly olive oil, the price is a little over Ss. ^d. the 

 gallon. But the first seven entries, between 1595 and 1638, 

 are at an average of $s. 8d. I have not noted it again till 

 1677, when it is found at 8s., and rises from this price. 



