STONE. 



:<IF.S of the price of stone are few and, after the first ten years 

 of the period, irregular. The chief source of information is the record 

 of the repairs to Westminster Abbey. The unit is the load, the 

 the yard, the foot, and the bushel, according as the material is \. 

 for road-making, building, or paving. Sometimes the stones are bought 

 ready shaped into mantlepieces, chimneys, corbels, or flags, rigging, 

 hearthstones, &c. 



Stone is described as Burford and Portland ashlar or skew, Purbeck, 

 Ketton, Reigate, Grimston, Guildford, Hildenley, freestone, firestone, 

 healing, &c. There are some entries of marble for decorative purposes. 

 One entry of a millstone is given. 



1703 



1708 



