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dearer, but only at proportionate prices. Oats are a little lower. 

 Rye is only supplied from one estate, and is at the ordinary relation 

 to wheat. Beans are rather dear. But peas are low, and vetches are 

 still lower. It is singular that though this year precedes one of 

 famine, the prices are not apparently affected by anticipation. 



1369. The evidence is rather more abundant and distinct, the 

 dates of the sales, a rare event in the later accounts, being supplied. 

 Wheat prices, commencing at moderate rates in some localities, 

 gradually rise to an excessive height. The rise is well marked at 

 Eastwood in Essex. The opening rate is los. up to Christmas, but 

 closes at i6s. in the summer. At Apuldrum in Sussex a small 

 quantity is sold at 20$. At Wellow in Hants the largest sale of the 

 year is effected at 1 8 s. Sd. The largest sales are those at Wye, where 

 13^. ^d, was got, and at Lullington, the greater part of the crop 

 being sold at nj. Sd. Barley rose correspondingly, the highest price 

 at Wellow being 13^. ^d. The Wye barley, however, was 7^. 6d. at 

 its maximum. Oats are also very dear, a sale having been effected 

 at Houndon at 8,?. Sd. The average has only been exceeded twice 

 before, namely in 1315 and 1316. Rye is not commensurate, most 

 probably because the entries are so few. Beans are very dear, as 

 also are peas, though the rate of vetches is not so high. An entry 

 from Oxford, discovered too late for insertion in the tables, gives a 

 price for a small portion of beans at gs. \d. 



1370. The evidence is of the same character as in the preceding 

 year. Wheat prices are still high, the average being affected by the 

 cost of seed. The Eastwood prices commence at 12^. in the autumn, 

 and fall to 8s. by the summer. The large sales at Wye are effected 

 at 9-r. \d. The highest prices of the year are found at Cheddington 

 and Stratford -on -Avon, but both these apparently are for seed. 

 Barley is much cheaper ; the price at Wye, however, is proportionate 

 to that of wheat. Oats are dear, as also beans and peas. Vetches, 

 as far as the scanty evidence supplies information, are cheap. Rye, 

 supplied from two places only, follows wheat. 



1371. The evidence is rather more plentiful. Wheat prices are 

 considerably lower, and some large sales are quoted at very similar 

 rates from a variety of localities. Barley is much lower, and oats are 

 far cheaper than they have been for several years. Rye follows 

 wheat. Beans, &c. are much lower. 



1372. The evidence is tolerably abundant. Wheat prices are 

 high, though there is no great fluctuation. At Eastwood they begin 

 at 8>r. in the autumn, and end at 9.?. in the summer. Prices are 



