718 ON PRICES GENERALLY BETWEEN 1401 AND 1582. 



Ox-hides rise proportionately to the price of oxen, as 

 follows zs. $d., 8j., 3*31. 



The rise in the price of the quarter of grain is represented 

 by the following figures 



s. d. s. d. 



In the previous 140 years the prices of these articles by the 

 quarter are 5^-. iof</., 4^. tfd., us. 5|^., 4s. $\d., $s. 90?., 4*. $\d. t 

 Ss. o\d., as will be seen in Vol. I, pp. 245, 247. 



The average rise in the price of the different kinds of corn 

 is 2*40. The least rise is in peas and barley, but the reader 

 will discern that in each case the quantity is but slightly 

 in excess of, or below, the average rise of the whole taken 

 together. 



Closely connected with the price of grain of various kinds 

 are the following, which form the next group : 



I have included salt in these articles, because, from its ex- 

 tensive use in curing provisions, it is one of those products, the 

 demand for which must have been nearly the same as that for 

 food. The average rise in the above eight articles is 2-53, a 

 little in excess of that which is discovered in corn. If we 





