242 ON THE PRICE OF GRAIN. 



King's Hall is 6,r. 2d., at King's College, where the entries are dated 

 and where the College seems to have bought more advantageously, it 

 is 5J. 6d. At Hey ford wheat is low. The malt sales of Ormesby are 

 numerous, 324 quarters being sold. Large quantities of barley (108 

 quarters) are also bought at Finchale. The prices of malt in the 

 eastern counties are singularly uniform, the averages of each locality 

 scarcely varying. The price of oats is higher, but meal is hardly 

 enhanced. Rye follows wheat. Beans, peas, and vetches are low. 



1467-8. The evidence is wide and the King's College prices are 

 dated. This College does not appear to have bought so advan- 

 tageously as its neighbour did this year. Prices are uniform or nearly 

 so at nearly all localities. I have not reckoned the Wearmouth 

 chaldrons in the average. Barley and malt are very little changed, 

 the former being slightly higher, the latter slightly lower. Oats too 

 and meal are almost unaltered. 120 quarters are bought by Finchale 

 at is. iod., and 37 at Yeovil at 2^. Beans and peas are also 

 unchanged to a material degree. Rye is slightly dearer. 



1468-9. The evidence is sufficient, and the King's College 

 accounts are carefully dated. The average of wheat at King's Hall 

 is 6s. 2%d., at King's College 6s. %\d. It appears that the price of 

 wheat rose considerably at the beginning of September 1469, but only 

 temporarily, one quarter having been bought at IQS. A large amount 

 is recorded as purchased in the Howard accounts, 688 quarters, at an 

 average of 6.r. $\d., i.e. about midway to the Cambridge purchases. 

 The Cambridge malt purchases are at low rates, King's Hall obtaining 

 its supply at 2s. *\\d., King's College at 2s. S\d. These facts will 

 account for the relative price of barley and malt in the tables. Oats 

 are cheap. Finchale buys 72 quarters at is. 6d. Beans and peas are 

 cheap. The harvest seems to have been generally good, but prices 

 of wheat are high in the eastern counties. 



1469-70. The evidence is fairly sufficient. The Cambridge corn 

 prices are again dated, at King's College, and the price is considerably 

 lower than in the previous year. But western prices are high. A 

 large quantity of wheat is bought in London at 6^. Sd. But at 

 Budleigh and Loders, in the west, the price is 8s. ^d. and 8s. At 

 Cambridge the price is highest in September, 1470. King's Hall 

 buys at 5-r. id., King's College at 5^. 8$d., on an average. Barley is 

 a little dearer, malt stationary, King's Hall and King's College 

 supplying most of the information, and the former buying at 2s. y\t/., 

 the latter at 2s. 8$d. Oats are a little dearer, and the price of meal 

 fluctuates. Rye follows wheat. Beans and peas are cheap. 



