34 THE PRICE OF LIVE STOCK. 



is wanting for 1513, 1514, 1534, 1540. During the last 4$ 

 years, fourteen years are without information also. But the 

 entries are amply sufficient for the purposes of an inference. 

 The average during the 140 years is 8s. 6\d., for the last 42, 

 23 s. *\d., a rise which corresponds to that in other analogous 

 agricultural products. These boars were almost certainly, as 

 in the earlier period, fattened on barley or bere. Towards the 

 latter part of the period, the price is frequently the same for 

 some years together, and seems to imply that the purchaser 

 bargained that the food consumed by the animal should amount 

 to a certain quantity, or contracted at a maximum price at the 

 time when the boar was in request. 



Besides boars, we find porci, which were, I conclude, as in 

 the earlier period, store or lean pigs ; hogs or hoggets, porculi 

 and porcelli. The former of these in the early years mean lean 

 store pigs, but in course of time the terms are. not accurately 

 distinguished, and are used indifferently for sucking-pigs, sows, 

 and bacons, the latter meaning sometimes the animal killed, 

 salted, and smoked, sometimes an ordinary hog in condition 

 for ordinary consumption. Hogs are generally cheaper than 

 porci or porkers. Sometimes sucking-pigs are called porcellini, 

 and occasionally in the later period, when accounts are kept 

 in English, the generic name of swine is given to all kinds, 

 e.g. Vol. iii, p. 173, col. 2. The term ' shots' is also found, and 

 in the later years f pig ' always means the sucking-pig. 



Sows are not frequently found, except in the earlier period. 

 They are dearer than bacon-hogs as a rule. Occasionally they 

 are sold with the litter, especially in the earlier years. Thus 

 in 1402 a sow and ten pigs is sold for *]s. ; in 1410 a sow 

 with seven for ios. 6d.\ in 1413 two, each with three, for 55-. 

 and 2s. 6d., one with eleven at 15.$-., and one with seven for 

 12s. 4d.\ in 1416 one with eight is sold for 8s. 6d., one with 

 ten at i6s. 8d., one with six at 6s. 8d.; in 1429 one with 

 four at zs. *]d.\ in 1430, one with seven at 7^. ; in 1431, one 

 with five at 5?. ^d. ; in 1432, one with two at $s., one with 

 six at 4s. ; in 1455, two witn nine ^ or 5 s ' 4^'' in *457> one 



