MISCELLANIES. 
ket, was baked into 433 lbs. of 
wheaten bread, and 25 lbs. of 
- household bread. And your Com- 
mittee, relying confidently upon 
the accuracy of that experiment, 
are thereby assured, that when 
the baker was forced to sell no 
more than 418 lbs. of bread for 
the price of a quarter of wheat, 
he really obtained in surplus bread 
the two loaves for advantage which 
the Statute professed to allow him; 
although it is probable the bread 
was not of quite so fine a qua- 
lity as the wheaten bread now in 
use. 
The money allowance appears 
by its specified application in the 
Statute, to have been for the pur- 
pose only of repaying the-baker’s 
charges for grinding and baking. 
The advantage loaves were for his 
maintenance and profit; but your 
Committee do not find the mode 
is exactly specified by which the 
money allowance was paid; in 
later times the mode of payment 
was described at length in the 
book published by Order of Coun- 
cil in the latter part of the reign 
of Queen Elizabeth, and which 
refers to a former Book of Assize 
as follows: “In the reign of 
Henry VII., the bakers were al- 
Jowed two shillings for their 
charges in baking a quarter of 
wheat and the bran, as plainly ap- 
peareth in the said old Assize 
Book, which hath relation to the 
Statute of Winchester aforesaid, 
565 
in which Assize Book it is de- 
clared in what manner the said 
two shillings is to be allowed ; 
that is to say, when wheat was 
at 12s. the quarter, the baker 
should bake at 14s. the quarter ; 
when at 14s. he is to bake at 16s. 
the quarter; as in the said book 
is to be seen, and is to follow at 
the same rate at what price soever 
wheat is at the quarter.’” As this 
mode has been in use down to 
the present time, and is above re- 
ferred to as having been long 
established, it is probably that 
which was in the earliest times 
adopted. 
Your Committee proceeded to 
trace the successive alterations 
which had taken place in these 
two allowances to the bakers, and 
with regard to the payment in 
money, they found it was from 
time totime increased and altered ; 
in the twelfth of Henry VII. it 
was raised to two shillings per 
quarter; and your Committee beg 
leave to point out, that a large 
portion of this allowance appears 
to have been appropriated to the 
baker and his family, who by fifty- 
one of Henry IIL, were provided 
for by the advantage loaves. 
«© Anno 1405, twelfth of Henry 
VIL, and as the said Book of As- 
size declareth,”’ ‘ when the best 
wheat was sold at 7s., the second 
at 6s. 6d. and the third at 6s. the 
quarter, 
The Baker was allowed, s; a 
€ Farnace and wWo00d...cccccccsesccctssccscccccssessecscesssseseeres 6 
The Miller.......... ie te » Meeediees wbtsttieidecce oO, & 
«Two journeymen and two apprentices........sseeseceeeneteO 5 
*« Salt, yeast, candle, and sack bands.......... te oe a 0 2 
“ Himself, his house, his wife, his dog, and his cat......... Ot? 
Irn all Pov eb a sree se ece ce, 3 Jae 
« And the Branne to his advantage” 
