370 THE PRICE OF WOOL. 



This, however, we shall find to have been by no means a singular 

 case. 



1272. The Gloucestershire price is higher than that of Norfolk. 

 The only other entries are those from Spenes Basset and Spenes 

 Comitis in Berkshire. If these fleeces be taken to contain rather 

 more than a pound and a half, the Berkshire price would be about 

 the same as that from Gloucestershire. 



1273. The Kenet stone is of thirteen pounds. The price is low. 

 On the other hand, the price of the Bovecombe fleece is beyond 

 parallel. The original states that 238 fleeces (grossce lance) were sold 

 for i i is. io^d., and that two stone of locks were sold at 3^. a stone. 

 This value of a fleece is not maintained in the years 1275-6, when 

 entries from the same locality are found. 



1274. The only price of wool by weight is that of lamb from 

 Bosham. The price is high. The fleece, however, is reckoned at 

 the same value with that from Suffolk. 



1275. Very little information is given. If we take the Lopham 

 fleece as weighing i^lbs., the rate at which it is estimated in 1290, 

 we arrive at the average given in the table. If it be no higher than 

 that of 1272, the price would stand at is. 8d. the clove. The Bove- 

 combe fleece is very low, while those from Whitchurch and Odiham 

 are of an average value. 



1276. The information is more abundant, being derived from 

 Sussex, Oxfordshire, and Wilts. The Oxfordshire fleece is of high 

 weight. The price of wool rises considerably. 



1277. The price of wool is higher than at any time in the whole 

 period, with the exception of the year 1320. Information is supplied 

 from Sussex and Wilts, besides that of the Stock-keeper, which is 

 probably from Yorkshire. The fleece, too, is on the whole dearer, as 

 we shall see by the price entered from Lopham and Spenes Comitis. 

 Lambs' wool is equal in price to sheep's at the only locality in which 

 it is quoted. This was perhaps the time in which ' scab' appeared. 



1278. The price is still high, though it has fallen considerably at 

 Stratton. The Weston petra is the clove. Broken wool is sold at 

 is. 4d. the clove. 



1279. The Bovecombe wool is evidently of inferior quality, and 

 has been omitted in the average. Gamlingay and Marlborough give 

 the lowest, Ibstone and Weston the highest prices. Broken wool is 

 sold at is. 5</., that of Bovecombe standing at i j. 6d. 



1280. I have been unable to discover the locality of Ryngeburg, 

 from which the largest sale is made at the highest price. The second 



