THE PRICE OF WOOL. 383 



1394. Alton Barnes wool is hardly changed, though a fraction 

 higher, as is also Wolrichston produce. The rate at Stert, which is 

 also in Wiltshire, is exactly the same as at Alton Barnes. 



1395. The evidence is larger. Wool from Alton Barnes is un- 

 changed, as also that from Stert. Heyford Warren produce is high. 



1396. Prices are considerably lower in all places from which 

 evidence is supplied, except Weedon. The evidence is abundant. 



1397. The information is very full. A considerable rise takes 

 place in all places, particularly at Heyford Warren, where the price 

 is enhanced by is. the clove. 



1398. Prices are hardly changed, though they are a little lower in 

 some places, as at Heyford Warren and Weedon. 



1399. Sheep's wool scarcely varies. It is a little dearer at Alton 

 Barnes and Heyford than in the previous year, but the change is 

 hardly perceptible in the average. The sales are numerous, repre- 

 senting Oxfordshire, Wilts, Bucks, and Hants. Lambs' wool is 

 exceptionally low. 



1400. There is no appreciable variation in prices, and the general 

 average is exactly the same as in the previous year. The evidence is 

 gathered from a wide area, and is, the difference of locality con- 



^idered, of a very uniform character. 



It will be plain that wools from certain localities bore 

 relatively a higher price than the produce of other places. But 

 these places can be distinguished, as a rule, only as separate 

 manors, for in the counties it often happens that considerable 

 differences are found in the same year. Thus the Southampton 

 price is is. 9^. in 1317, while the produce of several other 

 Hampshire estates is is. Alton Barnes and Farley Mountfort 

 are both in Wilts, but in 1389 the sack was worth little more 

 than ^ in the former, and 6 in the latter. 



The best wool appears to have been grown in some parts of 

 Wilts and Essex, in the Wealden of Sussex, in the lower 

 lands of Hampshire, in Oxfordshire, in Cambridgeshire, and in 

 some parts of Warwickshire. On the other hand, the wool of 

 least value seems to have come from the extreme north of 

 England, and from the south downs. If we are to take the 

 prices quoted for the eastern extremity of Yorkshire as illustra- 

 tive of the general value of produce in Holderness and the 



