720 ON PRICES GENERALLY BETWEEN 1401 AND 1582. 



This will account for the proportion which my results afford. 

 Cwt., i4s. o\d., 2,6s. 8J^., 1-90. 



We now turn to another kind of provisions, the different 

 kinds of salted fish which have been reduced in a foregoing 

 chapter to their averages. 



s . d. 



Herrings (red), cade 6 4! ......... 10 i ......... 1-58 



Do. (white), barrel II 6 ......... 22 9 ......... 1-98 



Sprats, cade ......... I 6| ......... 2 8 ......... 1.75 



Salmon, barrel ...... 27 3^ ......... 55 8 ......... 2-04 



Ling.c ................ 104 3 ......... 183 9 ..... .... 1-76 



Cod, c ................ 44 9 ......... 55 4 ......... 1.23 



Stockfish, c .......... 27 4 ......... 37 9^ ......... 1-38 



Salt fish, warp ...... i 8| ......... 2 i| ......... 1-24 



The average derived from all these entries of fish is a 

 difference of 1-62, the old prices being taken as unity. It 

 is quite probable that the decline in demand previously usual 

 from the consumption of the monastic orders, may have notably 

 contributed to this result, but I cannot help seeing, from the rise 

 in the price of these articles, which so closely corresponds to 

 that in the wages of labour, that the fact of the value of these 

 products being almost entirely derived from human labour, is 

 the explanation of the close correspondence between their later 

 price and that of labour. 



There are certain products, the value of which depends more 

 immediately on the labour expended on them, than on those 

 conditions which affect provisions, but are still related to land. 

 The most significant of these are the kinds of fuel. 



s. d. s. d. 



Faggots, c .......... 711 ......... 13 n| ......... I-7 6 



Fuel, c ................ 7 9$ ......... ii 10 ......... 1-52 



Charcoal, qr .......... o 7| ......... I o| ......... 1-65 



Charcoal, load ...... 7 & ......... 14 5l ......... J '94 



Firewood, c .......... 711 ......... 15 ......... !'9O 



Sedge, looo ......... 20 6 ......... 30 3 ......... 1-4? 



The average rise derived from these six entries is 1*71. But 



