WINCHESTER COLLEGE 79 frequently two rates in one year with no differentiation except an occasional notice of Lucca oil. As purchases were mostly local and similar in quantity it is probable that the variation was one of quality and that in some years a single entry covered two purchases at differing rates. In 1500 the higher price included 1d. a gal. for carriage but this is exceptional, though the single entries for 1499 and 1501–03 covered a similar charge. Better quality oil was generally priced at 1s. 4d. a gal. in the years 1410–1530, second quality at 1s. 2d. while oil at 1s. and 10d. a gal. was also bought. The prices possibly show the degree of refinement, 2d. a gal. being the cost of each process, but the oil may have been partly olive and partly rape. Higher priced oil was at 1s. 6d. a gal. 1531–33 while entries at 1s. 3d. and 1s. 3 1/2d. 1504–39 were probably of second quality, thus showing a real advance in prices in the early sixteenth century. Separate rates are given in the table below when known. “ Ca ” is appended to prices in­ cluding carriage.

DOI link for WINCHESTER COLLEGE 79 frequently two rates in one year with no differentiation except an occasional notice of Lucca oil. As purchases were mostly local and similar in quantity it is probable that the variation was one of quality and that in some years a single entry covered two purchases at differing rates. In 1500 the higher price included 1d. a gal. for carriage but this is exceptional, though the single entries for 1499 and 1501–03 covered a similar charge. Better quality oil was generally priced at 1s. 4d. a gal. in the years 1410–1530, second quality at 1s. 2d. while oil at 1s. and 10d. a gal. was also bought. The prices possibly show the degree of refinement, 2d. a gal. being the cost of each process, but the oil may have been partly olive and partly rape. Higher priced oil was at 1s. 6d. a gal. 1531–33 while entries at 1s. 3d. and 1s. 3 1/2d. 1504–39 were probably of second quality, thus showing a real advance in prices in the early sixteenth century. Separate rates are given in the table below when known. “ Ca ” is appended to prices in­ cluding carriage.

WINCHESTER COLLEGE 79 frequently two rates in one year with no differentiation except an occasional notice of Lucca oil. As purchases were mostly local and similar in quantity it is probable that the variation was one of quality and that in some years a single entry covered two purchases at differing rates. In 1500 the higher price included 1d. a gal. for carriage but this is exceptional, though the single entries for 1499 and 1501–03 covered a similar charge. Better quality oil was generally priced at 1s. 4d. a gal. in the years 1410–1530, second quality at 1s. 2d. while oil at 1s. and 10d. a gal. was also bought. The prices possibly show the degree of refinement, 2d. a gal. being the cost of each process, but the oil may have been partly olive and partly rape. Higher priced oil was at 1s. 6d. a gal. 1531–33 while entries at 1s. 3d. and 1s. 3 1/2d. 1504–39 were probably of second quality, thus showing a real advance in prices in the early sixteenth century. Separate rates are given in the table below when known. “ Ca ” is appended to prices in­ cluding carriage.