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in which is not specified, is purchased at about the same rate 

 as a barrel of herrings. 



Hake is mentioned once, but is cheaper than most of the 

 foregoing, being bought at Ss. yd. the hundred in Winchester ; 

 while cod, if I am right in interpreting c mulvelke' by this 

 name, cost nearly double the money at the same place. 



There are three entries of stock-fish, two of salt-fish, one of 

 hard-fish. The prices vary considerably ; but an average taken 

 from all gives a rate of ^i is. nd. the hundred, the minimum 

 being 7*. 6</., the maximum 1 if. 8d. 



The few entries of oysters (some in the earliest part of the 

 enquiry, some in the last few years) which have been discovered 

 in the accounts are collected in vol. ii. p. 555. Five of these 

 entries are taken from the roll of Thorney in Sussex, the rate 

 being uniformly a halfpenny the hundred. During three years 

 the information given comes from Sharpness in Kent, where 

 the reckoning is by the bushel, and the rate about 7^. Muscles 

 are also quoted in this place at $d. the bushel. Sharpness was 

 a manor belonging to Battle Abbey. 



The only table of the price of fish which it has been found 

 possible to construct, viz. that of herrings by the thousand of 

 i aoo, will be given below, among the articles the price of 

 which is commented on in the next chapter. 



