182 yds. of coloured bays at . . . . . . 1s. 4d. a yd. 49 " kersey at . . . . . . . . . . . 2s. 4d. " broadcloth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8s. 0d. " 147 yds. of coarse grey ffrize at . . . 11d. " buffyns in remnants (whatever they may be!) . . . . . . . . . . L1 9s. 4d. Also lace, silk, black velvet, broad taffeta, leaven taffeta . . . and 5 small boxes of marmalade. Mr. Chanter conjectures that this last item is marmalade, and can read it as nothing else, though he was not aware that it was a preserve of Queen Elizabeth's time, nor why, even if it were, it should be in De Wichehalse's shop. It was the prosperity of the De Wichehalses, the Salisburys, the Deamonds, and other enterprising merchants, which beautified the town with public buildings, almshouses, and their private residences--for the enrichment of which, as I have already stated, Italian workmen were brought over--and the seventeenth century was the time of the town's greatest importance and prosperity, when Barnstaple traded with Virginia and the West Indies, the Spaniards in South America and on the Continent. The Customs receipts show a very great import of tobacco, and there was a considerable manufacture of pipes, as a branch of local pottery. "The Exchange," or "the Merchants' Walk," as Queen Anne's Walk was then called, before it was rebuilt, must have witnessed the inception of many a venture, been paced by many an anxious foot when the weather was bad and the returning ship was long overdue, and seen many a bargain struck by richly dressed merchants, with pointed beards lying over their ruffs, gravely smoking their pipe of "Virginny" over the deal.