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Cambridge only. Nor have I been able to discover any record of 

 the price of oats, beans, and peas. 



1513-4. The evidence is again scanty. The Cambridge price 

 of wheat is $s. $\d. against 6s. o^d., the general average. There 

 is one entry of barley from Sutton-at-Hone, where this article is 

 generally cheap. The same locality also supplies a price of peas, but 

 oats and rye have not been found for this year. 



1 5*4-5' The entries are still scanty. Wheat is cheap in Cam- 

 bridge. But the only other entry which I have found, that at 

 Wiveliscombe, raises the average to 5^. 4^. Barley is very dear in 

 Durham, but malt is cheap at Cambridge. Oats are found at Wivelis- 

 combe only, and are cheap. Oatmeal in London is 8s. Rye is not 

 disproportionate to wheat. Peas are very dear in London. 



I 5 I 5~6. The King's College account for this year has been 

 found. Prices are low in the autumn, beginning at 4.?. 2d. to 4^. 8d. 

 in October, and gradually stiffening to 6s. 8d. in August. Elsewhere, 

 however, prices are much higher, the Cambridge average being 

 5^. 5^., and the general $s. 9!^. The evidence too is copious, and 

 derived from scattered sources. The Wardrobe account gives the 

 highest price, and after that Canterbury. A large quantity is bought 

 at Norwich at 8.$-. 6d. Barley, derived from three entries only, is 

 cheap. Malt is dear at Cambridge, Norwich, and Sutton-at-Hone, 

 but considerable quantities are sold elsewhere at low rates. Oats are 

 dearer, but not excessively so. There is no price of oatmeal. Rye 

 is cheap at Downham, where it was dear in the previous year. Beans 

 in considerable quantity are bought cheaply in London. Peas, found 

 at Cambridge and Sutton, are at about an average, but the price is 

 heightened by the entry from Sutton, where they and vetches are 

 dear. 



1516-7. The King's College account for this year is lost, and 

 the King's Hall entries are few. The price of wheat at Cambridge 

 is 4s.j the general average being $s. 3^., and the entries coming 

 from a wide area. Considerable sales of barley are recorded, this 

 grain standing at a little lower than the general proportion. Malt 

 corresponds to barley. Oats are cheaper, but oatmeal has not been 

 recorded. Rye is cheap. Beans are cheap at the only place where 

 the price is found, but peas are dear at Sutton, though at the same 

 price in Finchale. 



1517-8. The evidence of wheat prices is scanty, being derived 

 from three localities only, Cambridge, London, and Wearmouth. But 

 the Cambridge average, 6s. 4^d., corresponds closely to the general 



