3 H WOOL AND HIDES. 



1426. No sheep's wool is sold this year at Alton or Stert. But it 

 seems clear that one of the entries in the bailiff's account of the 

 former place is either a deferred item, or a late sale. If we take the 

 earlier, it is at a rate of >js. i\d., if the latter at 6s. Sd. The Weedon 

 rate is 6s. Sd. Lambs' wool is sold at Alton at 4^. id., and this 

 seems to suggest that the lower price should be taken. There are 

 three large entries of fleeces. That at Hornchurch is 3^. 6d. the 

 dozen. That at Foulness is a fraction over 4^-. The woolfells at 

 Coleshull are at a little less than 3^. 6d. In other places they are at 

 4^. and 3^. the dozen. 



1427. I have already referred to the Alton Barnes sale of this year. 

 That of Weedon is 6s. But there is a small sale at Alton at 7^. ^d. 

 A large quantity is also sold from Heylisdon, a place which I have 

 doubtfully assigned to Yorkshire. Here the petra, as we learn under 

 1445, is 81bs. The interpretation of these quantities, 313 'petrae' 

 by the 8 Ib. measure, gives for the three qualities exactly 7 j., 6s. 8d., 

 and 5J. 4d. Lambs' wool is sold at Alton and Stert at 3^. 6d. the tod. 

 The Hornchurch fleeces are at 3^. 6d. the dozen. Woolfells are 

 unchanged at 4s. to 3-$*., the latter as usual being rams', ewes', and 

 hoggs' fells. 



1428. The Alton Barnes wool is sold at a great deal higher price, 

 Ss. $\d. That of Stert is, at the date of 1425, the last year in which 

 this place supplies a wool price, 6s. Sd. These are the only sales 

 by weight, except that of lambs' wool at Alton, which is at 4^. Sd. 

 A few fleeces are sold at Hornchurch at %s. the dozen. Woolfells are 

 at 4S., 3J M and 2s. A very large sale of these articles at Coleshull is 

 at a small fraction above 3^. The lamb-skins at this latter place are 

 sold at so low a rate, that they suggest a very low quality. 



1429. Alton Barnes alone supplies a wool price; it is at 8.r. Sd. the 

 tod. Lambs' wool from the same place is at 4s. gd. The Horn- 

 church fleeces are at %s. the dozen. Woolfells are at 4^. and %s. 



1430. The Alton Barnes wool is the only entry whose weight and 

 price are given. It is at >js. Sd. Lambs' wool, from the same place, 

 is at 4-r. id. At Apuldrum a price of fleeces is given, but sheep and 

 lamb are mixed. The rate is apparently 2s. 6d. the dozen, the 

 ordinary price of a Sussex fleece. Woolfells are at the ordinary rates, 

 from ^s. to 3^. the dozen. 



1431. The Alton Barnes tod is at >js. g^d., and the lambs' wool 

 at 5^. %d. This is the only entry by weight. I cannot venture on 

 disintegrating the price of fleeces at Apuldrum. On any ordinary 

 interpretation the price would be high. Some woolfells from Coles- 



