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The prices, per Winchester bushel — best wheat 7s. Grl. rye 5s. 

 6d., barley 5s., beans 4s. 4cl., peas 5s. 5cl., oats 2s.* 



Under the same date is a fuller return from Sir Ro. PheUpps, 

 Kt., Thos. Lyte and John Harbin, for the following hundreds : — 



The total being 26,220 bushels of wheat, 2,035 of rye, and 

 24,897 of Lent com. The pices — wheat 8s., rye 7s., beans 

 5s., barley 5s., oats 3s., peas 5s. The poor were relieved, by 

 setting them to work and raising " the books of collection upon 

 " the abler sort." Thus, although the number was very gi-eat, it 

 was hoped to " keep them in some good order and obedience." 

 Salt and oatmeal, " with which the poor were wont at an eaisy 

 " rate to relieve themselves," were grown to very high prices. 

 The cause assigned was that " the merchants monopolise the salt 

 " and the clothier in making his mingled cloths consumed an 

 "infinite quantity of oats." Badgers, bakers and millers were 



Stale Papers, 1630, Vol. clxxvi., fol. 39. 

 t Lent Corn. 



