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right to sell sweet wines (hippocras, clarry, piments) L200 Rent cottage 5s/year Rent craftsman's house 20s/year Rent merchant's house L2-L3/year Cottage (1 bay, 2 storeys) L2 Row house (well built) up to L5 Craftsman's house (i.e., with shop, work area, and room for workers) with 2-3 bays and tile roof L10-L15 Modest hall and chamber, not including materials L12 Merchant's house L33-L66 House with courtyard L90+ Goldsmiths' Hall (with hall, kitchen, buttery, 2 chambers) L136 Large tiled barn L83 Wooden gatehouse (30' long), barn, and drawbridge: Contract L5 6s 8d + 1341 builder's clothing Estimated total L16 Stone Gatehouse (40' X 18'): with all except stone L16 13s 4d estimated with stone L30 Tower in castle's curtain wall L333, L395 Castle & college L450/annum for 13 years Transept of Gloucester Abbey L781 Stonework of church (125', no tower) L113 The following are the estimates of raw materials and labor that went into the tower of Langeais, a rectangular, tapering stone tower built in 992- 994. The source is [6], pp. 47ff. The dimensions at the base were 17.5 meters by 10 meters; the height was 16m (3 floors); the walls were 1.5m thick, made of two shells filled with loose rock. Limestone in building: about 1050 cubic meters, or 2 600 000 kg Wood in building: 47.5 cubic meters, or 34 600 kg Nails: 3 400, or 50 kg Mortar: 350 cubic meters. To make the mortar: sand: 225 cubic meters, or 360 000 kg limestone: 40 cubic meters, or 160 000 kg green wood: 540 cubic meters, or 286 000 kg Labor Costs, in Average Working Days (AWD): procurement: 14 250 transport: 2 880 labor: unskilled: 63 500 mason: 12 700 smith: 1 600 CLOTH AND CLOTHING Item Price Fashionable gown easily L10, up to L50 Gentry: Shoes 4d Boots 6d Purse 1.5d Hat 10d, 1s 2d Craftsman's tabard and super- tunic 3s Reeve's murrey (dark brown) robe 6s 4d Reeve's red robe 5s 3d Peasants (wealthy): Linen Chemise 8d Shoes 6d Woolen garment 3s Fur-lined garments 6s 8d Tunic 3s Linen 1s Landless serfs' tunics 1d-6d Cloth for peasant tunics 8d-1s 3d per yard Best Wool 5s/yard "Tawny and russet" 6s/yard Silk 10s-12s per yard Furs added to garment (+garment cost) L2-L3 to
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