206 ON THE PRICE OF GRAIN. 



leguminous crops are cheaper than at any known time before and 

 after. 



^fSSP- The evidence is abundant and varied. A considerable rise 

 is apparent, the rebound being nearly one hundred per cent. The 

 maximum is reached in the spring, as we learn from Cuxham and 

 Farley, in which places wheat touched 7^. and 7-r. 4^. respectively. 

 In Chyngele it was as high as 8s. 8d. Prices do not seem to have 

 been higher in the neighbourhood of London. Rye will be found to 

 follow wheat, and to have risen considerably. But the other kinds of 

 grain do not experience a corresponding rise. Large sales of barley 

 are effected at Elham, Lullington, and Oxford at very low rates. 

 At the first of these places there was a considerable stock of old 

 barley on hand ; and the same fact applied in all likelihood to other 

 localities in which accounts were not kept with such minute exactness 

 as on the Merton estates. Oats, though they do not rise proportion- 

 ately, are still dearer in some places. Beans, &c. are still very low, 

 with the exception of a small parcel of beans sold at Alciston in 

 Sussex. 



1340. The information is of the same character as before. The 

 price of wheat is again exceedingly low. At Cuxham the first price 

 is 4-$-., and the market continues to fall till it reaches 3^. zd. in June. 

 The Letherhead prices are nearly as low. The only place where a 

 sale is effected at a high rate is a small one at Easthampstede in 

 Berkshire. This was probably seed, or a purchase in the last year's 

 harvest. Barley is equally cheap, the large Elham sales being effected 

 at from 2.?. to zs. iod.; and the prices in Oxford are but little higher. 

 Oats, too, are at correspondingly low prices. Rye follows wheat, the 

 price being high in one locality only, and this being in all likelihood 

 a sale for seed. Beans, &c. are equally low. 



1341. The evidence is very abundant. Prices of wheat, with the 

 exception of one locality, are very low : this place is Apuldrum in 

 Sussex. At Cuxham and Cheddington, as well as in other places, a 

 rise takes place at the beginning of summer, as if in anticipation of 

 higher prices. In localities near London prices are not much higher 

 than elsewhere. Evidence of barley is very ample : a slight rise 

 takes place, but much of the Elham and Oxford barley is sold at 

 rates not higher than in the preceding year : the price, however, 

 rises in May. Oats are even cheaper than in the past year : as also 

 rye. Beans, &c. follow the rate, except that they are somewhat 

 lower than the proportion. 



1342. The evidence is abundant, but chiefly of the southern and 



