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proprietors of that manor dealing out a certain 
number of herrings to their servants at that time. 
In Norfolk and Suffolk, the centre of the herring 
trade, prices were comparatively moderate; going 
inland, carriage added considerably to the price of 
the fish, 
Ospring, in Kent. There are sixteen entries, prices 
uniform, between the years of 1277 and 1295. Herrings 
then were 8s. 4d. the thousand in that place, and 
lowest in price at Waleton on the Eastern coast. 
Prices were high in 1311-1320, and during the last 
fifty years of this enquiry seven herrings were sold 
for one penny, and at about fourteen a penny, on the 
average of the previous ninety years. 
Before and after the plague herrings were sold by 
the cade (500 or 600 of fish) at the rate of 3s. 8}d. 
All these entries are at the close of the 14th century. 
Prices * varied. In 1318 it was as low as 4d. a Salmon. 
pound at Oxford; as high at Gloucester in 1327 as 
6s. 5a. 
At Westshene (Richmond) 
L Sx a. 
Salmon sold in 1313 were worth 5 13 O 
Do. ‘5 1315 : 3: 10), © 
Do. S 1316 = 2 O 
Do. ‘s 1317; r 9 90 
Do. ‘ 1319 " Si-O 
Do. - 1320 7 6 140 
Do. ‘s 1321 9 ©, 13916 
This was Crown property, and besides the profit _ 
derived from the sale of the fish caught, the manor 
* In 1846, and later, salmon was purchased at 6d. a lb. in the 
south-west of Ireland. 
