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the price of cloth, of which I have abundant, exact, and almost 

 unbroken evidence, especially in the latter part of the period 1 . 



The table opposite contains decimal averages of the price of 

 wool by the tod of sSlbs., of woolfells by the dozen, of fleeces 

 by the dozen, and the highest price of ox-hides. The annual 

 entries will be found below, at the conclusion of the chapter 

 which treats of sundry kinds of agricultural produce. 



1 The average price of the seven entries in the later period is 155. c,%d. But I can derive 

 no inference from these figures. Two of the years are cheap, in which all agricultural 

 produce is low. The price of wool in England depended on foreign demand, especially 

 in Flanders, and the Low Countries were now suffering from the wars of religion. Their 

 trade was being destroyed and their industry paralysed, and many of them were being 

 forced into exile. It is impossible to doubt that the foreign market of English wool was 

 powerfully affected by the events which occurred during the last half of the sixteenth 

 century. 



