360 ON THE PRICE OF FARM PRODUCE. 



at ios. the barrel and at lod. the gallon. Bardney, in 1528, at 

 lod. the stone and 2os. 8d. and zis. ^d. the barrel ; in 1529 at 

 lod. and is. the stone and ijs. the barrel, and at the same 

 rate in 1530. It is bought at Trimley in 1545 at 6s. Sd. the 

 firkin of 58 Ibs., which would give 232 Ibs. to the barrel ; at I2s. 

 the barrel in 1546, at London. But in 1547 the navy buys it 

 at $8s., in 1548 (a very cheap year) at 30^., 33^. 4^., 38^., and 

 27.?.; in 1549 at 38.$-. and at 7,$-. the cwt. ; in 1566 at 40^. the 

 barrel, five firkins going to the barrel, and at the same price in 

 1574, when the barrel appears to contain 240 Ibs. In 1572 it 

 is bought at from 6os. to 56.$-. the barrel, and in 1576 at 30^. 

 the cwt. 



Butter by the pound rises from id. to $d. or even ^d. at the 

 latter end of the period, but in small quantities. The general 

 rise is from is. i\d. in the earlier period to zs. 8d. in the last 

 forty-two years. 



There are twenty-two entries of the price of milk, all in the 

 earlier part of the enquiry. The price ranges from a penny the 

 gallon to nearly 3^., the most frequent price being id. All the 

 entries but four are from the Sion accounts, three being from 

 Isleworth, where the Sion dairy was. The fourth is from 

 Windsor, on the occasion of a royal feast there. 



There are fifteen entries of cream before 1541. In the 

 earlier part of the first period, the price is generally from ^d. to 

 4\d. the gallon. Three entries in 1532, 1533, 1537 give 8d. 

 The Windsor purchase in 1527 is at is. The general average 

 for the whole time is 6d. Twelve entries of cream between 

 1559 and 1582 inclusive, generally derived from the Oxford 

 city accounts, give an average of is. $\d. 



In 1529 the abbey of Bardney buys 18 gallons of ' Ouaccum ' 

 at 2^. I have no means of deciding what this article is. It is 

 probably some mixture of curds and cream. 



HONEY. The price of honey by the gallon has been dis- 

 covered in 83 out of the first 140 years, being sometimes sold 

 in considerable quantities and at varying rates. The entries 

 are chiefly from Cambridge. Sometimes it is described as 



