ABSTRACT
47 WINCHESTER COLLEGE before 1470 the rigid price in 1406-69 is disregarded and prices for stewards’ cloth are accepted as being those actually paid. Even after 1470 the additions to the statute price for fellows’ cloth are rigid (6s. in 1470-76, 11s. 4d. in 1477-1518) while prices of cloth for stewards and others continue to fluctuate. The table from 1470 is therefore still formed from prices of cloth for stewards etc. In 1520-23 prices of either cloth are used as recorded, com bining the two when cloth for both fellows and stewards and others were bought at different prices. In 1521 no cloth was issued to fellows and after 1523 money allowances were generally made to them though some purchases are still recorded. In 1520-42 prices of cloth for the Warden’s servants occur. Their money allowance later was the same as the stewards’ and their cloth may therefore be assumed to be of similar quality to the fellows’ and stewards’. Prices for cloth for the Warden’s servants have therefore been used in 1528 (stewards’ cloth at 54s. 2d. per piece rejected) and in 1530-42, combined with fellows’ cloth in 1531 (84s. per piece) and 1542 (132s. per piece). Cloth for the Warden’s servants was sometimes bought in London with carriage extra. Of three purchases in 1521 for stewards’ cloth those apparently made in Winchester were both below and above a London price without car riage. Prices for cloth bought in London excluding carriage have therefore been accepted as comparable with local prices. In 1525 the price is stated to include carriage and is printed with a warning. Carriage and expenses of 2 pieces bought in London in 1522 were 7s. 2 1/2d. and carriage charges of 9 yds. brought from London in 1531 and 1534 were 8d. and 10d. respectively.
