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of the aforesaid with spades (hoccis) removing earth, 5s. 3d. And it is to be noted, that of the said nine labourers, as appears in the preceding week, two of them, to wit, Henry Amund and Ralph de Essex left Master G., of whom one departed altogether, and the other joined himself to the plasterer and served him, because his workman had left him.

In payments to Rosa, the daughter of Alexander the baker, Agnes de Colevile, Avicia Cooke, Avicia the daughter of the plumber, John Scot, Ivota the wife of Adam le Chapman, and John Cooke, workpeople, moving the earth with shovels and barrows ('cum hoccis et civereis' κινέω, moveo) towards the granary, 5s. 3d., each per week 9d.

In payments to Ralph the painter for whitewashing the closet and vaulting (circa claustrum dealbandum et volticium), 1s. 4d. In payments to Alexander his son, 1s. 3d. In payments to William his son, 9d.^[1]

In payment to a carpenter for carpentering in the wardrobe of the Queen by task-work, and working in the donjon, 40s.—et condubandum (condulandum?)—V. Du Cange sub voce, Dulo. Against Edward the carpenter, for one great rope of hemp, brought for lifting materials, 20d. In payment made to a plumber for the gutter of the aforesaid wardrobe, 20d. For grease (uncto) bought for the same plumber, 51/2d.^[2]

The expenses of William Newport, from the feast of Easter to that of St. Michael, 1278, were £21. 6s.; on the castle alone, £17. 19s.^[3] On this roll there occurs,

In payments to four men digging and cleaning the sun-dial of the gable (gabelle solarium), near the hall, by task-work, 2s. 6d. (Solarium is also a balcony.)

For carrying slate from Harringworth (carriacio petræ de slatte), for stone from Welledon and Stanerne, £12. 10s. 9d. Purchase of boards at St. Botulph, 20s.; of lead, £3. 16s. 1½d.; of nails, in the summer, at Nottingham, 16s. 9d.^[4]

The following entry furnishes the price and names of the different sorts of nails that were then used.

For ten thousand of lath nails (lathe nayle), bought at Nottingham, 7s. 1d., namely, 81/2d. a thousand. For two thousand and a half of board nails (bord nayle), bought at the same place, £1. 17s. 9d., namely, at 1s. 6d. a hundred. For a thousand

1. Miscellaneous Roll, 7 Edw. I.
2. Roll, 4, 5, Edw. I.
3. Miscellan. Roll, Queen's Remembrancer's Office, 6 Edw. I.
4. Roll, 9 Edw. I.