TABLES OF THE 



PRICES OF MATERIALS, 



IRON, IRONWORK, AND NAILS. 



UNDER this heading are entered such prices of iron or iron implements 

 as have been collected. They are mainly of two kinds, the market quota- 

 tions of iron and steel by the cwt., and the items of the blacksmiths' bills 

 in which the cost per pound of wrought or cast iron work is given. There 

 are also a few prices of wire work by the foot. The entries are not very 

 numerous, though only twenty-seven years are wholly without any prices. 

 During the last half of the period the papers at Brandsby supply by far the 

 greater part of the information, the articles being supplied by the local 

 blacksmith, who quotes the weight and the price in his bill. They are 

 mainly agricultural and domestic implements. 



A number of prices of nails are given, and the account often states the 

 uses to which they are to be put, as garden, lead, lath or slate. 



1703 



1709 



