380 THE PRICE OF WOOL. 



1370. There is very little alteration in this year from the entries 

 of the previous year. The price is the same at Eastwood. The 

 wool from Wellow is a little dearer, and a sale from Laweshull in 

 Suffolk is at about the same rate. 



1371. Prices are a little lower at Eastwood, but are high at 

 Wolrichston. There is a considerable sale of lambs' wool at 

 Sharpness. On the whole, there is but little variation from the rates 

 of the preceding year. 



1372. The Northleigh tod must be taken at fourteen pounds. 

 On the whole, prices are higher, slightly so at Eastwood, but fully at 

 Wellow and Wolrichston. 



1373. But little information is found. There is a considerable 

 sale at Northleigh in Oxfordshire at 2s. 6d., and another, also large, at 

 Wye; but the fleeces are given without weight. They are sold at 

 higher rates than in the year preceding. 



1374. The price is higher still, though only two prices, those 

 namely from Eastwood and Wolrichston, are given ; but in both cases 

 there is a considerable rise, the larger price being, as usual, effected 

 in Wolrichston. The fleeces from Houndon (Essex) are also high. 



1375. Rates are still rising, except at Wolrichston, in which a fall 

 is sustained. But in Wilts and Hants the same, or very nearly the 

 same price prevails. Lambs' wool, too, is dear. The Cheddington 

 fleece is also high as compared with that of the previous year. 



1376. In this year we have the first instance of a wool series, 

 which is continued, beyond the limits of the present volume, with few 

 interruptions for half a century ; the rate, namely, at which sales are 

 effected at Alton Barnes, one of the New College estates. The 

 average on the year, though fully sustained at Heghtre and 

 Wolrichston, is lowered a little by the price at Alton Barnes and 

 Bromham, both these localities, like Heghtre, being in Wilts. Lambs' 

 wool is dear. The fleeces appear to be light. 



1377. Prices are again higher, reaching the rates of 1375. The 

 Weedon sale, as it seemed from the very low rate and small quantity 

 to be inferior wool, is omitted. The rate at Wolrichston is the 

 highest yet reached on that estate, and that from Farley Mountfort 

 in Wilts is fully up to the prices of the best wool sold from that 

 county in the previous years. 



1378. Prices are a little lower. Wolrichston has declined 13^. \d, 

 on the sack, or 3^. on the clove. The Ponteland sale is, as usual, 

 omitted from the average, the price, though higher than occurs 

 sometimes, being still disproportionate. The fleeces from Boreham, 



