INDEX. 



Liquorice, 



price of, 465. 



Litchfield, Lord, 



a tenant of New College, 

 806 and note. 



Literary activity of seventeenth 

 century, 21. 



Livery cloth, 



prices of, at S. John's College, 

 Cambridge, 571. 



Load, 



of lime, a variable measure, 



515. 

 Locke, 



advice of, about the recoin- 

 age, 136. 



Lockram, 



prices of, 556. 



Locks, 



kinds of and prices of, 68 1. 



London, 



its importance in the seven- 

 teenth century, 7. 



filthiness of, 84. 



death-rate in, 89. 



growth of, in time of James 

 I, 129. 



its condition, 130. 



recovery of, after the fire, 



*45- 



customs at, 155. 



taxes at, 159. 



purchases of stone at, 511. 



city of, excepted from 

 Statute of Labourers, 613. 



rates of labour in, 629. 



deaths and births in, 633. 



comparative cheapness of 

 corn prices in, 761. 



wages in, effects of, on aver- 

 ages, 793. 



labour in, not under justices' 

 assessments, 825. 



churches, 



rebuilding of, and wages 

 paid at the, 635. 



Long Parliament, 

 taxes of, 158. 



Looking-glasses, 

 price of, 725. 



Lords, 



offence of, at Act of 1623-4, 



154. 

 Lovelace, Lord, 



his purchases of furniture, 



Lovell, Lord, of Holkham, 

 his cultivation of land, 816. 

 his expenses and profits in 



his wages, 830. 

 Loyalists, indigent, 



tax on behalf of, 166. 

 Lutestring, 



prices of, 583. 



M. 

 Mace, 



price of, 454. 

 Madeira wine, 



price of, 445. 

 Magdalen College, Oxford, 

 disappearance of the great 



indentures at, 407. 

 carriage from Shotover to, 

 764. 



- Tupp, the, 493. 

 Magistrates, 



motives of, in their assess- 

 ments of wages, 99. 



Maintenance, 



cost of, 637. 

 Malaga wine, 



prices of, 445. 

 quern, 



price of, 707. 

 Malt, 



tax on, its effects on brewing, 

 7<>5- 



tax, the, 1 68. 

 Manners, 



character of, in the seven- 

 teenth century, 6. 



Mantua, 



prices of, 583. 



Manufactures, 



woollen and linen, and English 

 population, 799. 



Marble, 



prices of, 511. 



Markham, Gervase, 



his treatise on fowling, 28. 

 his works on agriculture, 45. 

 his Farewell to Husbandry, 



Marmalade, 

 price of, 465. 



Marriage licence, 

 cost of, 722. 



Maryland, 



incorporation of, 141. 



Master, of Votes Court, 

 his proceedings, 28. 

 his coaches, 716. 

 his departure from Puritan 

 training, 731. 



Materials, building, 

 rise in price of, 791. 



Mathematics, 



progress of, in the seven- 

 teenth century, 21. 



Matting, 



price of, 747. 

 Mead, 



purchases of, 327. 

 Meals, 



taken in silence, 6S6. 

 Measures, 



prices of, 746. 



local, 255. 



Meat, 



cheap and dear times of, in 



the year, 337. 

 baskets, 699. 



dishes of, 686. 

 Medicines, horse, 



purchases of, 715. 

 Melons, 



price of, 465. 

 Merton College, Oxford, 



its travelling fellows, 25. 



its suit with Oxford city, 513. 



its contracts for new build- 

 ings, 514. 



its new buildings, 629. 



its note of a charitable weekly 



grant, 795. 

 Metal, hard, 



used for dishes, 492. 

 Metals, 



rise in price of, 790. 

 precious, 



distribution of, 779. 



Middle-man, 



not yet developed, 66 1. 



Middleton, Hugh, 



plate purchased of, 494. 

 Midleton, Lord (Chancellor 

 Brodrick), (misprinted 

 Middleton), 



sole inventor of the Penal 

 Code, 20. 



Military tenures, 



commutation of, 14. 

 Milk, 



prices of, 362. 



