THE PRICE OF WOOL. 369 



error for 3f </., as this rate by the pound more nearly represents the 

 value of the sack given in the same document. ' Holderness' was 

 part of the estate of Isabella de Fortibus. 



1261. No information is supplied as to wool sold by weight. 

 But if we take the weight of the fleeces ('tois' is probably only 

 tonsura), from the two localities specified, as a pound and a half, the 

 average value for this year would be about the same as that of the 

 year preceding. The year 1262 is not represented. 



1263, 1264. The information for both these years is derived 

 again from the south-east of Yorkshire. The price of the best wool 

 is the same as in the first year. Inferior wool is sold at the rate of 

 is. 6^d. the clove, and locks at nd. for the same weight. 



1265. Nothing has been found but the price of Rodestone fleeces. 

 These were probably of full weight, and may have reached nearly 

 two pounds. As a rule, the fleeces from the midland counties are 

 the heaviest, and the wool most valuable. 



1266. The only information given by weight is from the Isle of 

 Wight. The price is low when compared with that of preceding 

 years, both for sheep and lambs' wool. 



1267. The price is derived from Stockton only, part of the estate 

 of Roger Bigod, and the price is high. The Harewood fleece is 

 somewhat dearer. The Navesby woolfells are probably (as is gene- 

 rally the case with such articles) the produce of sheep that had died 

 of murrain. 



1268. The Stockton price (the pondus is here plainly the equiva- 

 lent of petra) is the same as in the preceding year. The east country 

 wool is cheap. 



1269. There is no evidence of any kind for this year. 



1270. I have been unable to discover the locality of Pauleflete, 

 one of the estates of Isabella de Fortibus. Here the price is high, 

 being identical with that of 1260-3-4, but the eastern wool is cheap. 

 If that returned from Bretteby be reckoned by the petra of fourteen 

 pounds, the price at this place was low. Bretteby is in Derbyshire, 

 and, as has been observed, wool from this county was low-priced. 

 The fleece will weigh a little more than a pound and a half. I have 

 not included the wool from this place in the average. 



1271. The Chesterford and Maldon petra is reckoned as a clove. 

 That this estimate must be taken in the former case is plain from the 

 price of the pound at Lopham. The Maldon petra is found below 

 to have been specially designated as equal to the clove. The Acle 

 fleece must have been very light, weighing no more than a pound. 



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