240 ON THE PRICE OF GRAIN. 



universally, the price of meal being also low. Rye is fairly related to 

 wheat. Beans have not been found. Peas and vetches (the latter 

 seed) are low. 



1459-60. The price of wheat is a little lower. It is still, however, 

 dear in the midland district, and in the south, 6^-. at Apuldrum, 

 and 6s. 8d. at Lullington. But it is cheap at Cambridge, the average 

 of this locality being 4$. 5^. The Sion purchases of 1 60 quarters, 

 some of which is seed wheat for the home farm at Isleworth, is &s. d. t 

 a little above the average. It is not, however, dear in the west at Yeovil 

 and Loders. Barley is a little lower, and, as before, the price is height- 

 ened by the entries from less cheap localities, while, pan'passu, malt 

 is lowered by the cheap rates of Cambridge, Castre, whence over 300 

 quarters are sold, and Ormesby ; Sion buys its 360 quarters of malt at 

 4s. io\d. Oats are rather dearer. There is, indeed, a rather high 

 range supplied from Oxford, but the fact is further illustrated by the 

 price of meal. Rye follows wheat. Beans, peas, and vetches are 

 cheap. 



1460-1. The price of wheat rises considerably, and in all districts. 

 A little is sold at Ormesby at a low rate, and King's Hall makes a 

 favourable contract early in the winter. But with these exceptions 

 the price is very generally 8s. The Sion purchases are made on an 

 average at 8s., &\d., some seed being bought at slightly lower rates. 

 Barley and malt are dearer, but the relative price of both is lowered 

 by the eastern abundance, for in this district there is scarcely a per- 

 ceptible rise. Sion buys a few quarters of barley at 5^. 6d., and 309 

 quarters of malt at an average of 7^. 6%d., a very high rate, indicating 

 that there was considerable local scarcity. Oats are rather dearer. 

 Rye rises co-ordinately with wheat. Beans are not found. Peas and 

 tares are very high priced. 



1461-2. Wheat is still rising, standing at the same price in most 

 places, but becoming dearer in Cambridge, where the average is 

 *js. 6\d.j nearly the general average, and remaining at nearly the same 

 rate in the midlands. It is, however, cheaper in the south, and, to 

 judge from one entry, in the west. One entry, the price of which is 

 probably the error of a scribe, has been omitted. The evidence is 

 general. The price of barley is almost unchanged, as is also malt, 

 the chief entries of which come from Cambridge. Oats and meal are 

 also dearer. There are no entries of rye and beans, and but scanty 

 information on peas and vetches. 



1462-3. The evidence is scanty, but is sufficient to prove that 

 the prices of wheat were very much lower. There is, indeed, only one 



