372 ON THE PRICE OF FARM PRODUCE. 



and the bushel. It varies, as may be expected, greatly in price 

 according to its proximity to the coal-field. It is purchased in 

 York by the chaldron in 1402-1404 at 5^-., in 1415 at 5.$-. 4^., 

 in 1418 at 4^. 4^., and 4^. in 1419 ; ,at is. id. theskep at the same 

 place in 1432 ; at is. ^d. the quarter in 1472, the fuel being here 

 designated as Raby coal ; at is. id. the quarter in 1498. But at 

 Windsor, in 1405, it costs 3,$-. 8d. the quarter; in 1408, 6d. the 

 bushel ; in 1414, $d. 



At Jarrow and Wearmouth it is much cheaper. It is i s. 4\d. 

 the chaldron at the former place in 1433, IO !^- * n I 45 I > 

 is. i\d. in 1453, is- 4d. in 1454, i^. id. in 1466, in 1531 

 2s. At Wearmouth it is bought by the fother in 1448, 

 1449, at 2s., in 1450 at 6d. } in 1453 at 7^., in 1452 at 2s. o\d. 



The Howard accounts of 1467, 1469 contain purchases at 

 6s. $d. the chaldron. It is bought by Sion for the first time in 

 1489 at js. } in 1497 at 5^-. 8d., in 1507 at 4^. 5|^., in 1508 at 

 5.$-., in 1515 at 5^., in 1516 at 4^. 8d., in 1517 at 6^. 4^., in 

 1518 at 6s. 8d., in 1522 at 9^. 8i^., in 1523 at 4^-. 6d., 5^., and 

 gs. 4d., in 1529 at 6s. 8d., in 1534 at 6s. 8d. 



It is bought at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1502, when 20 

 bushels cost 3^. 8d., and 1503, when the same quantity costs 

 3y. In 1519, 1520 it is bought at i\d. the bushel, and in 

 1521, at i\d. 



A chalder is purchased at Hickling in 1517 at $s.\ seven 

 in 1521 at Hunstanton at 5^-., three at 5^. 4^., and half a 

 chaldron at 6s. ; next year at the same place, nine are bought 

 at 5.$-., four at 5.$-. ^d. In the next year twenty chalders from 

 Newcastle are purchased at 5^-. 4^., and in 1527, dated pur- 

 chases from March to Feb. give 5^-. 4^., 4^. 8^/., 5.$-., 5^. 4^., 6s. 

 The Nuns of Swyn buy thirteen chaldrons in 1528 at 5^-. 1 1//., 

 and nine chaldrons are bought at Hunstanton in 1533 at 5 s - 

 In 1548, fifty-seven chaldrons are bought at 2s. 6d. in New- 

 castle, and sold as sixty-eight and a-half Ipswich chaldrons at 

 ioj., an enormous profit. In 1549, at Hunstanton, twelve and 

 a-half chalders, two bolls are bought at jcxy., and eighteen 

 chaldrons are sold at Newcastle at is. io$d. In 1562, ten 



