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WOOL AND HIDES. 



average of the century after 143 [ is 4*. naf., for the northern 

 prices, of the first three decades in Wilts is 8s. o\d., close 

 to the proportion to which I have called attention in 1451-60. 

 I do not feel myself justified in drawing general averages 

 from such scanty materials as are found in the third volume. 

 But I am pretty confident that, till the great rise occurred after 



the issue of the base money, average good English wool stood 

 at much the price at which I was able to estimate it in my first 

 volume, Ss. yd. the tod. But though my information is too 

 deficient for an average, I shall be able to obtain all or nearly 

 all that could have been inferred from a plentiful record of 

 prices obtained for the raw material, when I come to deal with 



