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skins from the same place, are found. The woolfells are sold at 

 exactly 5r. the dozen, and imply a price like that of 1521. 



1531. There is one price from Durham at 2s. Sd. the stone, i. e. 

 5*. 4d. the tod. The entry states that 97 fleeces made fifteen stone, 

 which gives, at 14 Ib. to the stone, the high weight of 2 Ib. 2-8 oz. the 

 fleece. But there is reason to believe that the low-priced coarse 

 fleeces were heavy. 



1532. The Durham tod is 6*. The Hunstanton >js. Locks are 

 sold at Durham at 25. $d. 



1533. The Durham tod is 6,r. and 6s. Sd., locks being 2s. Sd. 

 The Hunstanton tod is >js. Sd. The Isleworth 6s. \d. Woolfells are 

 3J. 4d. the dozen at Lines, and skins is. Sd. 



1534. The only entry is from Durham at 6s. 



1535. There is an entry of 2 packs from St. Osyth's. Taking the 

 pack, as it is at Ixworth in 1516, at 17 stones, this gives a tod of 

 Ss. 2\d. On analysing the pack, it would contain 209 fleeces at 4</.; 

 this amount corresponding to those valued at ^d. in 1521. 



1536. A large collection of tithe wool prices was found under this 

 year for several towns and townships in Lancashire, as well as one 

 from Jarrow. These vary from Ss. 2d. at Blackburn to 7.?. >jd. at Pen- 

 hull, most of them (nine) being at Ss. The Jarrow tod is 6s. Sd. 



Hitherto, I have found evidence for most years, though with a few 

 interruptions. For the next 46 years I have only nine entries. 



1545. A large sale is made at Lincoln at a little over 15^. the tod, 

 and a smaller sale at Wilton, in Wilts. Here again we have the 

 pond, but we are puzzled by its being called ' fifteen weight.' Taking 

 it at the familiar Wiltshire measure, it gives 2is. \d. the tod; if it be 

 supposed to mean a i5lb. stone, it will give 32^. >jd. the tod, a very 

 improbable price. 



1547. A small quantity is sold at Oxford at 9^. ^d. the tod. 



1551. A considerable sale is made from the household of the 

 Princess Elizabeth at 20^. She was living at Hatfield, Essex. The 

 woolfells range from 24,$-. to 19^., iu., and IQS. $d. the dozen. Shorn 

 skins are from IQJ. to 4*. 1545 and 1551 were dear years; 1547 a 

 singularly cheap year. 



1558. Wool is sold at Oxford at 9^., and woolfells at los. the 

 dozen. This is a cheap year. 



1559. A considerable sale is effected at Oxford at 15^. Sd. the tod. 



1560. I have found the register of an enormous sale of Colswold 

 wool under this year; 144 tod at 20^., and 16,000 sacks at i6s. 

 the tod. 



