THE PRICE OF LIVE STOCK. 341 



with six at 3^. One with pigs, the number not given, is sold 

 for 3^. 4//. in 1527. 



The average price of sows in the fifteenth century, after which 

 they are very rarely found in the accounts, is 3^-. $d. Entries 

 are given as high as 6s. and 5^-., but generally the price is 

 3^. ^d. The same rate prevails in the early part of the six- 

 teenth century. Thus a sow is bought at Lewes, in 1535, at 

 3^. ic*/. But in 1572 the price is Ss. 



Store pigs, the porculi, sometimes porci, occasionally hoggets, 

 of the accounts, are bought throughout the fifteenth century 

 uniformly, and in considerable numbers at from 2s. 6d. to 3^-. 

 apiece, and especially at Apuldrum and Lullington, the home 

 farms of Battle Abbey. They are often cheaper elsewhere, but 

 it may be inferred that the price represents at once the pig 

 which might be fattened into a full-sized hog, or, after a little 

 stay in the sty, might be killed and served as a porker, or be 

 put to the salting-tub. The same price is paid at Sion for 

 * porkers,' which may be taken as the English equivalent of 

 porculus. After 1540, the price rises to about 6s. 8d. But 

 in the latter part of the period, these animals disappear from 

 the accounts, and very little is found except boars and 

 sucking-pigs. 



Sucking-pigs, the porcelli of the earlier accounts, and the pigs 

 of the later, are generally bought in the earlier period at 4*/., 

 and rise from iod. to is. and is. id. at the close of the period. 

 The price, however, is so varied, according to the size of the 

 animal at the earlier period, that I have not thought it worth 

 while to construct a table of averages. The rise in price, at 

 the conclusion of the period before me, corresponds with that 

 of other agricultural produce. 



POULTRY AND GAME. As in the former period, the com- 

 monest kind of poultry are capons, geese, cocks and hens, 

 pullets, and pigeons. They are valued in the subjoined tables 

 by the head, except pigeons, which are taken by the dozen, 

 and rabbits, which are reckoned by the couple. Ducks are 

 not so common as might be expected, but I have found more 



