Documents. 617 



To daub a Partition-wall with Clay on both sides is three Pence a yard, 

 and to roughcast it without, and render it on the inside four Pence 

 a yard in the Country. 



Heart-Laths of Oak are one Shilling and ten pence a Bundle or 

 Hundred. 



Sap-Laths of Oak are one Shilling and eight Pence a Bundle. 



Fir-Laths are twelve Pence a Bundle. 



Laths of five Foot long are an hundred in a Bundle ; of four feet long 

 one hundred and twenty; and from half an Inch to an Inch and half 

 thick of each sort but the Fir-Laths. 



A Bundle of Laths will do a Square of Tiling, and five hundred of Nails. 



Sawing of Timber is from two Shillings and Eight pence to three 

 Shillings a Hundred, which they measure in the middle of the Tree ; 

 and suppose a Board to be ten Foot long, and one broad, one cut is 

 reckoned so many Foot. 



Thatching. 



Thatching with Straw is done from two Shillings and sixpence to 

 three Shillings a Square, and with Reed four Shillings a Square. Two 

 good load of Straw will do about five Square, the Square being a 

 hundred square feet ; and a thousand of Reed will cover three Square 

 of Roofing which costs about fifteen or sixteen Shillings, both which 

 Thatchers most commonly tie on with withs, but old pitched ropes 

 unwound are much cheaper, and more lasting to tie with. 



Digging. 



Cellars, Foundations of Buildings etc. are commonly done by the yard 

 solid, which contains twenty seven square Feet, and is usually counted 

 a Load; and therefore the Dimensions being given in Feet, multiply 

 the length by the breadth and the Product by the Depth, dividing the 

 last Product by twenty seven, the quotient will give the Contents in 

 Solid yards. 



Glaziers work is done by the Foot-square. English glass is sixpence 

 a Foot, French glass one Shilling, and Crown Glass one Shilling 

 Sixpence a Foot; to take down a quarry of Glass to scowre, sodder, 

 band, and set it up again, is three Half pence a Foot. 



Pales. 



In the Country we find six Foot Pale, Post, Rails, Nails, and work- 

 manship is fourteen Shillings a Pole ; a five foot Pale is twelve Shillings 

 a Pole, and a four foot Pale is ten Shillings a Pole. 



Cleft Pales are worth eleven Shillings a hundred, 120 Pales of four 

 foot long making a hundred, 100 of five Foot, and 80 of six Foot long 

 to the hundred. 



Posts hewed ready for four foot Pales are worth twelve pence a Post, 

 for five Foot eighteen pence. Rails by the Pair of nine foot long are 

 eighteen pence a Pair ; and of ten foot twenty pence. 



Timber of about twelve Inches girt is best for Pales or Laths. A Ton 

 or forty foot of good clear Timber, that will cleave well, will make about 

 three hundred of five foot Pales ; and four hundred of four foot. 



But a Ton of Timber will make about 440 foot of an Inch Board, 

 which if cut into fit lengths, will make 80 five foot Pales, 100 four foot, 



