2l8 ON THE PRICE OF GRAIN. 



It rose above 6s. in 1262, 1270, 1372, 1376, 1381, 1290, 

 1299, 1320, 1328, 1360, 1365, 1373, 1380. 



If we take, again, the record of lowest prices : 



It fell below 35-. in 1287. 



It fell below 31. 6d. in 1265, 1288, 1338, 1387, 1392. 



It fell below 41. in 1263, 1306, 1326, 1327, 1337, 1340, 



344 5 1345) J 377> 1378, 1388, 1393, 1394. 

 It fell below 4^. 6d. in 1261, 1264, 1266, 1267, 1278, 1289, 



It fell below 5^. in 1260, 1280, 1284, 1286, 1296, 1300, 

 ^ i35> J 3 I2 5 i3 l8 5 133*5 i33 6 > J 37 6 5 !3 8 3- 

 The average price of wheat during the years 12611400 is 

 5*. io|</. 



Between the years 1259 and 1269 there was only one year 

 above $s. io|^/. Between 1270 and 1276 only two years below 

 it. Between 1277 and 1286 seven were below, three above, 

 these three being consecutive. Between 1287 and 1306 five are 

 above this amount, 1290, the three consecutive years 1293, 

 1294, 1295, and the year 1299. From 1307 to 1326 eight 

 years only shew a lower price, the remainder are all above the 

 rate, that is, 1307, the two cheap years 1311-12, and 1313, 

 1318, 1319, and 1326. Between 1327 and 1346 the price of 

 wheat is fourteen times below $s. io|^., seven of these years, 

 1332-8, being consecutive, three, 1340-2, being also consecu- 

 tive, and two more, 1344-5, being consecutive, the remaining 

 being the first year, 1327, and 1343. In one year, 1339, it is 

 exactly the average. The dearest years are five, 1328-31 and 

 1346. From 1347 to 1366 six years only are below 5^. io|^/., 

 1348-9, 1353-4, 1358, 1361. Among the dear years are three 

 consecutive, 1350-2, five not very high, 1355, 1356, 1357, 

 1359, 1360, five more consecutive, 1362-6, with the year 1347. 

 From 1367 to 1386 ten years only are below 5^. iof^., 1376-9, 

 1381-6. From 1367 to 1375 the price is never below 6s. In 

 the fifteen years concluding the period, wheat is only three 

 times above the average, in 1390, 1396, 1400. 



