WATER CARRIAGE. 775 



Newmarket, and apparently ten or a dozen miles distant from 

 any navigable stream. 



Windsor, according to the accurate and careful map of the 

 river Thames by Mr. Taunt of Oxford, is 43 miles and 130 

 yards from London Bridge. Burcot is nearly 96^ miles, and 

 Oxford in miles 5 furlongs 66 yards. From Lechlade to 

 Oxford is 32^ miles, and from Radcot Bridge to Oxford 26 \ 

 miles. From Oxford to Windsor is 68} miles. 



The next important entry is the carriage of the wainscots 

 from London to Burcot in 1599. They are fourteen tons in 

 weight, for they make fourteen loads from Burcot to Oxford. 

 The cost to Burcot is 6 2s., or a little over 8s. 8\d. the ton. 

 The water carriage then of heavy goods is effected on the 

 Thames at a fraction over id. per ton per mile. 



In 1608, 28^ loads of timber are sent from Reading to 

 Burcot. The charge by the load is 6s. id., and the distance 

 from Burcot to Reading by water is 22 miles. The rate per 

 mile per load or ton is therefore a little over 3^. 



In 1609, All Souls College procures three tons of stone in 

 or near Radcot, and has it conveyed to Oxford, at is. *]\d. the 

 ton, or less than i\d. a mile. 



In 1630, hops are carried by water to Eton College at u. the 

 cwt. The rate is rather high, nearly 6d. a ton per mile. In 1635, 

 occurs the entry on which I have already commented, the con- 

 veyance of about nine bales of cloth by wherry, the barge 

 being missed. Now if these prices of cloth conformed to the 

 Statute of Edward VI (vol. iv. p. 206), and Blackwell hall was 

 maintained in order to secure this result, the whole must have 

 weighed about 720 Ibs. By barge the carriage of such a quan- 

 tity might have been 4^. ; by wherry it is icxr. 



In 1639, three fothers of lead are sent from London to 

 Oxford, entirely by water I conclude, or by water to Burcot 

 and thence by land, at 245. the fother the whole way. The 

 rate is about id. per ton per mile. 



In 1661, New College buys stone from the neighbourhood 

 of Radcot bridge, and has four loads conveyed thence by 



