844 



INDEX. 



Oxen, 



yokes of, 333. 

 Oxford, 



purchases of coal at, 387. 



brick at, very dear, 533. 



wages at, low, 629. 



siege of, losses of Colleges 

 during the, 737. 



siege of, and effects of, 763. 

 city of, 



its purchases of mill-stones, 



5". 

 Colleges, 



presents of gloves by, 

 frequent, 726 sqq. 



arms purchased by, in 1588, 



736. 

 Statutes, 



prices of, 750. 

 University, 



services of Laud to, II. 



licensed vintners, 443. 



its litigation about a re- 

 puted private road, 761. 

 Oyster-beds, 



at Brading, 425. 

 Oysters, 



prices of, 424. 



quantities of, at Winchester, 

 687. 



P. 



Pails, 



prices of, 743. 

 Painter, 



wages of, 657. 

 Paints, 



price of, 683. 

 Pans, etc., 



prices of, 700. 

 Paper, 



prices of, 593. 

 Paradise, 



grains of, 464. 

 Parchment, 



prices of, 600. 

 Pargetter, 



wages of, 641. 

 Parliament, English, 



its boldness after the death 

 of Mary Stewart and the 

 ruin of the Armada, 32. 



its commercial policy, 799. 

 Parliamentary war, 



character of, 796. 

 Parochial settlement, 



law of, after the Restoration, 



Partridges, 



price of, 368. 

 Pavior, 



wages of, 655. 

 Peacock, 



price of, 370. 

 Pears, 



kinds of and prices of, 321. 



dried, prices of, 465. 

 Peas, 



for food of man, price of, 



hasting, 315. 



Peasant, 



lot of, in seventeenth century, 



832. 



Pebbles, prices of, 507. 

 Pembroke, Lord, 



buys raw iron, 480. 

 Penal Code, 



the invention of BrodrickLord 



Midleton, 20. 

 Pensionary Parliament, 



its policy not successful, 784. 

 Pepper, 



prices of, 450. 

 Per-centages, 



rise in price by, 794. 

 Pewter, 



old, prices of, 491. 

 -- vessels, 



prices of, 491. 

 Pheasants, 



price of, 368. 

 Phelips, Sir Thomas, 



Speaker, his rules, 6. 

 Philip II of Spain, 



his office for hiring assassins, 



3- 

 Physics, 



only that of antiquity in the 



seventeenth century, 21. 

 Pictures, 



prices of, 685. 

 Piece-work, 



divers kinds of, 658. 

 Pie-plates, 



prices of, 702. 

 Pigeons, 



prices of, 366. 

 Pigeons' dung, 

 a prized manure, 675. 



Pigs, 



kinds of, 342. 



Pins, 



prices of, 735. 



Piracy, 



practice of, by English, 4. 

 Pistols, 



cost of, 737. 

 Pitch, 



price of, 681. 



a navy store, price of, 739. 

 Plague, 



recurrence of, 97. 

 Plagues, 



severity of, in England, 633. 



deaths by, in London, 782 



note. 

 Plank, 



differs from board, 522. 

 Plasterer, 



wages of, 641. 

 Plate, 



presents of, customary, 686. 

 gold, 



price of, 494. 

 silver, 



prices of, 493. 

 Plattes, 



on husbandry, and its hin- 

 drances, 55. 

 Plays, 



acted in halls, 687. 

 Ploughing, 



by day or acre, 646. 

 Ploughs, etc., 



prices of, 675. 

 Plovers, 



kinds of and prices of, 369. 

 Plumber, 



most highly paid artisan, 639. 



Plush, 



prices of, 582. 



Poll-tax, 



of Restoration, 165. 



Pomegranate, 

 price of, 464. 



Poor-law legislation, 



amount of, from 154! to 

 1601, 820 and note. 



rate, 



distribution of, 80. 



rates, 



in counties, 122, 123. 



Population, 



growth of, causes of, 782. 

 increase of, in the seventeenth 

 century, 788. 



Pork, 



price of, 343. 



