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gd. at Heveningland. In Oxford, 1462, one eel costs a penny. 

 In 1466 forty great eels cost id. each at Colchester ; and in 

 1468 five score at Cambridge are bought at a little over 

 4s. iofd?. the score. In 1472 six score at the same place are 

 purchased at about is. 7\d. the score. In 1475 Cambridge buys 

 six score at is. 6d. t and next year a hundred for 23 s. ^d. i. e. if 

 it be six score, at about 3^. o^d. In 1478 five score and eleven 

 are bought at 4$-. In 1481 twenty eels cost \\d. each, and 

 seventy-four, which we are told weighed 95 Ibs., were bought 

 at id. each. This would imply that the average weight was 

 about ilb. 4 J oz. In 1484 fresh eels cost id. each at Cam- 

 bridge; and at the same place, in 1487, 83 cost 13^. 4^., that 

 is, a little less than id. each. In 1489 at Cambridge five score 

 eels are bought at 4^. 8d. the score. In 1498 a hundred eels 

 at Cambridge cost i6s. 8d., i. e. at six score about 4^. $\d. the 

 score. In 1507 six. fresh eels are bought at Thornbury in 

 December for $s. 4^., a very high price, and in 1508 fifty-five, 

 weighing 74 Ibs., are bought at Cambridge at id. a pound. 

 In 1509 six eels cost i\d. each at Hickling ; in 1511 a quarter 

 of a hundred are bought for is. 6d. ; in 1516 three cost $d. each, 

 and a quarter of a hundred is. lod. in 1518. In 1517 the price 

 is the same, twenty are bought for 9^., two hundred at is. the 

 hundred, and a quarter for is. ^d. In 1519 two hundred, called 

 Browets, are bought for is. 8d., half a hundred for nd., and 

 twenty, called c les Bakus,' for i s. These entries are all from 

 Hickling. In \$ii twenty fresh eels cost is., and eighteen 

 more the same sum at Oxford. At Durham in 1530 ten cost 

 6d. each. In the same year six dozen fresh eels are bought at 

 York at a penny each. In 1531 a dozen eels at Durham cost 

 is. id., and nine dozen at York $s. 8d. In 1533 seven dozen 

 cost the Durham monks 4.$-. 4^ and in 1533 eight dozen are 

 bought for 4^. iod. At Lewes in the same year sixty-nine 

 great eels are bought for 39^. 6d., and 2200 others for los. 6d. 

 In 1549 twenty-four baked eels are purchased at Oxford for 

 At Bury (St. Edmunds) thirteen sticks of fresh eels cost 

 6\d., and in 1571 five dozen, apparently fresh, are bought 



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