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1310. No great amount of information is given. There is a 

 considerable sale of Yorkshire wool, and it is plain that prices are 

 still falling. 



1311. The price is still lower, the evidence being abundant 

 and derived from distant sources. As usual, wool is cheap at 

 Southampton, as well as in the extreme north. Were it not for 

 these entries prices would not vary notably from those of the year 

 preceding. 



1312. Prices are rather better. But I have omitted the Tingewick 

 petra from my average, as the price is so prodigiously high. In all 

 likelihood the petra is the tod of 28 Ibs. In such a case the price 

 would vary only slightly from that of Cuxham and Cheddington, two 

 localities sufficiently near Tingewick to suggest that a uniform price 

 prevailed at all ; the Cheddington clove being 2s. %d., the Cuxham 

 2s. 2.\d., and the Tingewick 2s. ^\d. 



1313. Prices are considerably enhanced in all directions, one of 

 the localities, Teddington, being the same as that from which one of 

 the low rates of 1311 was inferred. The Maldon fleece, which has 

 been selected, is of comparatively high weight. In other localities 

 fleeces are light, at Letherhead little more than a pound, at Langley, 

 Westshene, Stevenage, and Cuxham, less than a pound. 



1314. In general the prices are maintained, but the average is 

 depressed by the Southampton return. 



I 3 I 5~ I 3 I 6. There is no great variation in the prices of either of 

 these years from that of the preceding return. The evidence, though 

 not copious, is wide-spread, being chiefly derived from the southern 

 counties. 



1317. For this year a considerable amount of information is 

 procured from Hampshire, the prices of wool in which county being 

 somewhat lower than those which are found elsewhere. The rate in 

 Surrey is fully maintained, and a small sale by the pound in 

 Gamlingay is effected at a very high price. Lambs' wool, of which 

 more than ordinary information is given, is at about the usual 

 proportion. 



1318. Prices are somewhat higher, especially at Southampton. 

 Welsh wool is quoted at a dearer rate than ordinary. 



1319. A considerable rise takes place, especially in new wool, 

 though some stocks have greatly increased in value. 



1320. The price is higher than at any year during the whole 

 period before us, and is maintained generally. The only low rate 

 is that of Southampton. The evidence is sufficiently varied and 



