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hull are sold at 6s. the dozen. But the rest are, as usual, at 4^. and 

 3-r. for wethers, ewes, and rams, 6d. for lambs, the dozen. 



1432. The price at Alton Barnes this year, the last in which this 

 estate supplies an entry by weight, is 8^. Lambs' wool at the same 

 place is $s. iod. The abbey of Bicester gives an entry of several tod 

 at 8^. iod. There is an entry from Heveningland of 109 petrae at 

 2s. iod., and we are told that the fleeces were 740. Here it seems 

 from the evidence of other places in Norfolk, that the stone was 

 14 Ibs., and the rate to be 5^. Sd. the tod. Suffolk wool is one of the 

 lowest priced in the schedule of 1.454. There is also an entry from 

 Jarrow at 2^. ^d. the stone. I am constrained to believe that this is 

 also at 1 4 Ibs. the stone, and that the tod is therefore 4^. Sd. It is 

 probable that northern wool bore a very low price, lower indeed than 

 most of those in the schedule. But the Heveningland fleece is a 

 little over 2 Ibs. in weight, and over $s. the dozen. Those of Apul- 

 drum appear to be worth only about is. 6d. Woolfells of all kinds 

 are at 3^. 



1433. The only price by weight which I have found is that at 

 Jarrow. This, on the average reckoning, is at 4.?. iod. the tod, and 

 implies a slightly raised general price. The Heveningland fleeces are 

 at 4S. s$d. the dozen. The woolfells of Coleshull are at %s. iod. 

 Those of Alton Barnes, a few residuary sales, at 3.?. 



1434. There are two entries by weight. Heveningland is at 6s., 

 Jarrow at 4s. Sd. Fleeces from Caldecotes are at 4^., from Ormesby 

 at 2S. the dozen. The former fleeces are sold in two lots, and are 

 probably two years' stock. 



1435. In this year Caldecotes wool is weighted at 5^. 2d. the tod. 

 Jarrow again at 4*. Sd. If my estimate be right it makes the former 

 worth in fleeces %s. 6d. a dozen. 



1436. The price of wool, to judge from Chitterne Milbourn in 

 Wilts, is high in the best districts. Here it is at los. io%d. the tod. 

 At Heveningland it is at 6s. y in Jarrow at 4*. The fleece at Apuldrum 

 is at 2s. >jd. the dozen, at Caldecotes at 5^., at Sporte 3^. >j%d. Lamb 

 fleeces at Caldecotes are at is. 2\d. Woolfells are 4*. and 2s. 6d. at 

 Coleshull, 3.?. at Waltham, and 2s. iod. at Chitterne. 



1437. Wool at Heveningland is at 4^. 8d., at Jarrow 4^. Fleeces 

 at Sporte are worth 3.$-. i\d. the dozen. Woolfells are at 3^. The 

 year must have been cheap. 



1438. The Jarrow price is unchanged. Fleeces at Caldecotes are 

 at 4s. Woolfells at Coleshull are 3^. 6d. the dozen. 



J 439- Prices are higher. There is a considerable sale at Bicester 



