THE PRICE OF WOOL. 375 



J 333- Prices are much lower. The Stillington return is omitted 

 from the estimate, although the price is rather above the average, 

 since these north country sales are generally delusive, and suggest 

 wider fluctuations than really occurred. The Clare prices are very 

 high. 



1334. Prices are higher again. The northern sales, which are 

 exceptionally low, are again omitted. The woolfells quoted are of 

 very inferior quality, and no note of those from Maldon and Oxford 

 is taken in the averages. Lambs' wool is not so high, a fall being 

 experienced in that sold at Letherhead. It is probable that there 

 were considerable variations in the quality of this year's wool. 



1 335- A considerable rise takes place in all kinds of wool. This 

 is noteworthy at Basingstoke and Wolford, two places from which 

 sales take place in this as well as in the preceding year. The 

 Durham sale, effected at no better terms than in the year before, is 

 omitted. The Bretham fleece is heavy.. 



1336. Prices are a little lower than in the previous year, but 

 higher at Bretham and Gamlingay. The average is reduced by 

 sales from Crowmarsh in Oxfordshire. The Wolrichston price 

 is high. 



1337. The price is as low as in 1333; that of lambs' wool is 

 almost beyond parallel. The evidence, however, is abundant, and 

 derived from the same, or nearly the same localities, as in 

 previous years. The fall is noticeable at Bretham, Wolford, and 

 Wolrichston. There is an entry of black wool from the north which 

 is also low. 



1338. The price is a little higher for great wool, but the 

 average is raised by reason of the sale at Finchale, the rate of 

 which is high. Wolford prices are a little higher. Lambs' wool, 

 however, is cheaper than before. 



1339. The price is lower again, all the localities concurring in 

 the fall. At W T olrichston wool is sold at little more than half the 

 price which it fetched in 1336. Lambs' wool is a little higher. 



1340. The evidence is scanty. Lambs' wool is a little dearer, 

 but great wool, whether estimated by the clove or by the pound, is 

 not higher than in the previous year. 



1341. The evidence is more abundant and the price higher. 

 The Clarette fleeces again are heavy, but the rise is not universal. 

 The Bretham rate is low, while that from Heghtredebury, apparently 

 Heytesbury, is high, though the bailiff admits that the sample was of 

 low quality. Stillington prices are a little higher, but they are, as 



