278 ON THE PRICE OF GRAIN. 



sold at King's College, and arc probably derived from the 

 College mill. 



Ghete is very cheap in the first three entries, standing at 

 about half the average price of wheat. It was at this time, 

 probably, coarse meal from which the finer particles had been 

 bolted, such flour I mean as made the finest or manchet bread. 

 Subsequently it is fully as dear as wheat, and it seems that 

 generally, unless purchased in very small quantities, wheaten 

 flour and meal were treated not as quantities, but as products 

 of quantities, the value given to them being that of the corn 

 from which they were ground. 



There are only two years, 1563 and 1568, in which chete 

 and grudgins are found simultaneously. In both these cases, 

 the former is sensibly dearer than the latter, though the 

 difference in price may, after all, be assigned to a fluctuation 

 in the market value of the same commodity, quite as reason- 

 ably as to a variety of commodities. It is noteworthy that 

 gurgettes and chete occur in the same year, 1476, and at the 

 same price. 



Between 1476 and 1533 there are ten entries of chete, and 

 the average is exactly that of wheat for the whole period, 

 5^. n^d. Between 1560 and 1569, in which the last entry 

 under this name occurs, the average is zos. o\d. Grudgins are 

 found, with two intervals (1569, 1573), from 1563. Between 

 1563 and 1570 inclusive, the average is i*js. 4\d. For the 

 last eleven years it is 22s. ^\d. 



Farina is priced in the year 1504 at 6s. &/., in 1556 and 

 1569 at 26s. %d. and zos. It will be remembered that 1556 

 is the dearest year in the whole period. The price is a little 

 below the wheat average. 



Simila is found ten times. Before 1540 the average is 

 i2s. Af\d.) afterwards it is \is. %\d. But the entries are in 

 this latter period not at all significant. 



Similago, in 1557, is priced at 37^. 4^. This is a cheap 

 year, but the price may be really a record of the great dearth 

 of 1556. 





