328 ON THE PRICE OF GRAIN. 



gs. io^d. There are no entries of beans in the tables. Peas are 

 rather dearer than might be expected. Pulse is cheap, to judge from 

 a single entry. 



1420-1. The evidence is of the same character as in the pre- 

 ceding year. But prices fluctuate greatly, and are very various. The 

 harvest must have been deemed abundant in the autumn, and have 

 been found deficient, locally at least, later in the season, for the Heyford 

 price of November is very low. Wheat, which is only 4^. 40?. in the 

 first entry of the Cambridge account, rises to >js. 4</. later on in the 

 year. It appears too that southern supplies, as at Lullington, Teffont, 

 and Wye, were scanty, while the crop in the eastern counties was 

 plentiful The same inferences can be made about barley, though 

 generally this crop must have been copious, though its quality was 

 probably low to judge from the price of malt, which is nearly $s. ^d. 

 a quarter at Cambridge, at which fifty -four entries are made, and where 

 the fluctuations of the market correspond with those of wheat. The 

 Hornchurch rye is cheap, and oats are at about an average price, the 

 rate at Hornchurch being low. There is no entry of beans, but peas 

 and pulse follow prices locally, and otherwise, being variably cheap 

 and dear. 



1421-2. As might be expected from the record of the past year, 

 there is a considerable fall in prices. The evidence is not so abundant 

 as before, the Cambridge account being defective, but the range is 

 wide. Prices are high in the south, at least at Apuldrum and Lulling- 

 ton, but low elsewhere. The same fact holds good with barley, con- 

 siderable sales of which are recorded. Oats are rather dear, the 

 average being probably enhanced though the price is nowhere low- 

 by some specially good qualities having been bought at two places for 

 meal and seed. Beans, peas, vetches, and pulse are rather cheap. On 

 the whole the harvest must have been plentiful, and the quality high. 

 This, in the case of oats, is proved by the low price of meal, this being 

 only 8s. 2\d. the quarter. 



1422-3. The evidence is of the same character with that of the 

 preceding year. Prices are lower, the average of wheat being 4$. 

 and very uniform. Barley is slightly above the proportionate average, 

 very large sales being made at Guyton at a low rate. The entries too 

 are derived from wide sources, from Sunderland to the Cotswolds. 

 Drage does not appear. Oats are rather lower, but the quality is 

 good, to judge from the price of meal, 8s. Rye follows wheat. 

 Beans from two entries are rather high. Peas are slightly above the 

 average, being heightened by a dear purchase of seed. This fact 



