OA T THE PRICE OF GRAIN. 



All the entries of pollen are after 1540. They are nine in 

 number, and the average is 21 s. 6d. The dearest year is, as 

 might be expected, 1556; the cheapest, as naturally, is 1557. 



There are two entries of blancorn from Wearmouth in 

 1405 and 1406, where it is bought by the chaldron, and on 

 both occasions with barley. It appears to be a kind of barley. 



There are three entries of hulkescorn from Yeovil, where it 

 is plainly a kind of wheat. They are in 1447, 1451, 1452. 

 In each case the wheat is inferior, to judge from the price, to 

 that procured in the same place. 



There are twenty-nine entries of hops (Vol. iii. p. 254). 

 They are chiefly returns from Cambridge, though some are found 

 from other places. The first entry (1482) is from Norfolk, in 

 which they are bought at iis. id. the hundred-weight. There 

 is no other entry till 1510. The price on an average is, for 

 1511-30, i6j-., for 1531-40, 13^-. iod., for the next decade, 

 15^. 6d. ; for the residue between 1566-1582, 335-. lod. The 

 rise effected during the last period taken again corresponds 

 to the general inference formed as to general prices in the 

 later, as contrasted with the earlier time. At Harling and 

 Mendham hops are sold in 1372-4 at qd. a pound. 



The subjoined tables contain the following: 



I. The first table contains the annual averages of wheat, 

 barley, drage or bigg, oats, rye, beans, peas, vetches, pulse, malt, 

 oatmeal. Under each column, except the last, the first entry 

 denotes the average price of the quarter, the second the 

 number of entries from which the average has been calcu- 

 lated, the third, the number of localities which have supplied 

 the evidence. In the case of oatmeal, derived always from very 

 few places, the price only is given. 



II. The second table gives the decennial averages of the 

 above, with the exception of drage, vetches, and pulse. These 

 averages are calculated in two quantities, for the first 140, and 

 for the last 42 years. 



III. The third table contains the decennial averages of 



