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Essex cheese is purchased by Sion by the wey in 1501 at 

 12s. iod. and 13^. 4^. the wey, in 1519 at from i$s. to 14^. iod., 

 and probably in 1520 at i8s., in 1521 at from i6s. $d. to 15^., 

 in 1524 at 14$-., in 1525 at 135-. 6d., in 1526 at about 16^., in 

 1527 at 175-. &/., in 1532 at about 15^. 6d., and in 1536 at 

 from 195-. to 14^. %d. 



Suffolk cheese is purchased by Sion at about los. the wey in 

 1494, at 143. in 1501 ; at a much lower price, which it is not 

 easy to disintegrate, in 1532 ; at i6s. %d. in 1535, and at 23^. 8</. 

 in 1536. The navy controller buys it at 30^. in 1549. That of 

 Metingham College in 1527 at qs. gd. is probably of the same 

 origin. 



A much cheaper cheese is bought at Wye in 1462, 1463, 1464, 

 1466, 1502, at 6s. 8d. the wey ; at Faversham in 1474, at even 

 a less price, 6s. to 6s. *]\d. ; at Alciston in 1479 and 1502 at 

 6s. %d. ; and at La Loose at the same rate in 1498. Some 

 cheese of this quality appears to be purchased by Sion in 1499. 



Cheese rises in price from about los. lod. to 2,6s. $\d. 

 towards the close of the period. Some bought at Hunstanton 

 in 1572 varies between 40 s. and 26s. %d. 



In the earlier part of the period cheese is sold by the stone 

 of 14 lb., the price ranging from is. the stone to 7<, and (as at 

 Fountains in 1490 and Bardney in 1528-30) to even 6d., $d. 

 and ^d. Generally it may be said that common good cheese 

 could be bought at about a halfpenny the pound. Later in the 

 period it is bought in 1548 at id. the pound, or at 8.$-. id. the 

 cwt., in 1549 at i\d. and id. A singular entry at Faversham 

 in 1474 gives an unknown quantity, the pestry. The value 

 of this quantity seems to imply the clove or half-stone. 



Butter is sold by the gallon, the pound, the stone of 14 Ibs., 

 and later on by the barrel and firkin. The price by the gallon 

 is from is. to 8d?., the former price being pretty constant near 

 London. By the pound it is generally at !</., by the stone at 

 I.?. The earliest entry of a barrel which I have found is at 

 London in 1514, when it is bought at i2s. 5^., the same price 

 at which a wey of cheese is purchased. Sion in 1324 buys it 



