7 66 ON THE COST OF CARRIAGE. 



being said to be twelve miles, at nearly the same rate ; and 

 wheat from Hedley to Farnham, Survey, eight and a-half miles, 

 in 1701, at a little less than ICY/, a ton. 



In 1629 Eton gets timber carried from a place called Wood 

 Mansetts at 6s. &/. the load. I have been unable to discover 

 this place in the inch Ordnance scale, but I conclude that it is 

 ten or twelve miles off by land, and four more if the carriage 

 is by water. In 1646 it pays the same price for bringing 

 timber from Cookham, which is ten miles distant; and in 1647, 

 6s. 6d. for the same service from Bray, six miles off. 



Winchester College, whose accounts do not begin till after 

 the rise in these prices, gets its timber from Allington, a place 

 which, according to the Ordnance survey, is eight miles distant 

 from the College 1 . In 1650 and 1655 it pays $s. 6d. a ton for 

 the carriage, %\d. per ton per mile. In 1661 it pays *]s. 6d., or 

 H^d. ; in 1664, 7 s. 3!^., or nearly lid. In 1668, 1669 and 

 1671, it gets the service performed at 6s. &/., or at ICY/, the 

 ton per mile. In 1686 Eton pays a shilling a mile for carrying 

 bricks from Slough. 



I now revert to certain Oxford prices. In 1588 Magdalen 

 College pays *js. for the carriage by water of 100 salsamenta 

 (the name this corporation gives its saltfish) from London to 

 Burcot. The fish (vol. vi. p. 393) cost 7 icxr., and probably 

 weighed close upon half a ton. If this were the case, the price 

 of the land carriage, 2j., was about 5 \d. a ton. But Magdalen 

 College never gets them conveyed at this rate again. In 1595 

 it pays IQS. for 142 fish from London, but this I am convinced 

 is to Burcot only, and the subsequent charge by land is either 

 dropped, or contained in some other item. In the next year, 

 1596, the College buys a hundred and a-half of salsamenta at 

 a cost of ,10, i.e. 6 135. ^d. a hundred, and pays 6s. 8d. for 

 the land carriage, or about 4^. $d. the hundred, more than 

 double the previous price. In 1602 the College gives 6s. %d. 



1 In 1645 Winchester College pays 3/. I2s. for shaping and carrying 12 tons of 

 timber. Now they paid is. a ton for shaping. Probably the timber came from 

 Allington, and the carriage was paid for at $s. the ton. 



