LAND CARRIAGE. 765 



Oxford must have greatly hindered communications from the 

 neighbouring villages. 



In I 595> carriage from Headington is is. a load; in 1612, 

 is. 4d. ; in 1646, 3.?., the same price being paid from Little- 

 more. The two villages are about equidistant from Oxford. 

 But in 1600 the cost from Wheatley, five miles off and over a 

 heavy road, is 2s. 6d. ; and in 1622 from Stanton S. John, six 

 miles off, $s. id. I shall return hereafter to other carriages 

 from or to Oxford. 



In 1585 King's College, Cambridge, pays is. a load for 

 wood carriage from Madingley. Now, by the Ordnance map, 

 Madingley is four miles from the centre of Cambridge, and the 

 rate is about the same as that paid by Oriel College from 

 Stowford. In 1594 the same corporation gives 2^. <\d. a load 

 for the carriage of hay from Denny to the College. Denny is 

 6J miles from Cambridge, and the rate is therefore as nearly as 

 possible 4</. per ton. In 1621 it pays $s. a load for carrying 

 hay from Kingston to the College, apparently ten miles off. 

 This is at nearly the same rate, but rather cheaper. In 1667 

 hay from Grantchester is carted at 2s. &/. a load. Now 

 Grantchester is about 2j miles from Cambridge, if I can trust 

 my measurements on the Ordnance map, and the cost is 

 therefore trebled. In the year before, Magdalen College 

 carried wood from Tubney, six miles distant, at the rate of 

 is. a mile, and Eton, from Slough, got bricks carried at the 

 same cost. This price appears to have now become nearly 

 regular. In 1665 the cost of carrying wheat between Eton 

 and Taplow, and Eton and Colebrook, both five miles 

 distant, is effected at the cost of is. a quarter for the journey, 

 or is. a ton, taking wheat at 56 Ibs. to the bushel and at five 

 quarters 1 to the ton or load. The cost of carrying wheat 

 between Eton and Colebrook is the same in 1689. In 1696 

 oats are carried to Winchester from Medstead, the distance 



1 Of what integer is wheat the quarter? I suppose of the old ton of twenty 

 'Saxon* hundreds each of 100 Ibs., and each Ib. of 5400 grains, the bushel 

 weighing about 6 a of these pounds. 



