LATHS. 



TUFRB were few prices of laths found among my father's papers for 

 this period, and those were entered under the head of timber; but, in 

 conformity with the practice followed in previous volumes, I have givm 

 such quotations as there were under a separate heading, together with 

 those extracted from the papers at Brandsby. The distinctions made 

 in earlier periods, of hart and sap, are again found, as well as several 

 new ones, such as slate, pantile, tile (or tillate), white plank, long pantile, 

 long slate, plaster, fir, pine and split. These are often distinguished by 

 their length in feet. They are bought by the thousand and the bunch, 

 which measure is always supposed in the following tables where no 

 other designation is given. It appears, as before, to have contained 

 a hundred. 



1703 



17GO 



