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INDEX. 



Ploughs, 



prices of, 411. 



Ploughshares, 

 prices of, 411. 



Plovers, 



price of, 344. 



Points, 



price of, 623. 



Poleyn, 



a kind of wax, 365. 



Pollen, 



price of, 279. 



Pondus' 



the, of Wilts, a wool mea- 

 sure, 208. 



Poor-law, 



English, origin of, 6. 

 necessity for a, 498. 



Poor-laws, 



enactment of and reform of, 



759- 

 Pope, 



power of, to redistribute cor- 

 porate endowments, 101. 



Poplar timber, 

 use of, 449. 



Population, 



of England in middle ages, 



IS*- 

 Porcio, 



of hay, 298. 



Porpoise, 



price of, 537. 



Portugal, 



union of Spain and, its effects, 



656. 

 trade of with India, 656. 



Potatoes, 



first entry of, 653. 



Pot, pewter, 

 price of, 623. 



Pots, 



leather and copper, 613. 

 earthenware and stone, price 



of, 623. 

 brazen, price of, 6 1 6. 



Poultry, 



common in the fifteenth and 



sixteenth centuries, 58. 

 Pound, 



cost of building a, 629. 

 Powdered spice, 



price of, 664. 



Powdering tub, 

 price of, 617. 



Precious metals, 



increase of, and increase of 

 prices, 492. 



Prices, 



law of, in scarcity, 109. 

 rise of, referred to in 25 



Hen. VIII, cap. 13, 109. 

 attempts constant to keep 



up, 270. 

 decline of, between 1461 



and 1540, 454. 



Primogeniture, 



effect of in I5th century, 3. 



Printing, 



its connection with the in- 

 vention of spectacles, 599. 



Proclamation, 



unpublished, of Elizabeth, 

 192. 



Property tax, 

 of 1427, 161. 



Prosperity, 



remarkable, of the fifteenth 

 century, 23. 



Provisions, 



rise of, in 1501-40, 736. 



Prunes, 



measures of, and prices of, 

 672. 



Prynne, 



works of, 155. 



Pumps and pump shoes, 

 price of, 620. 



Purses, 



prices of, 581, 623. 



Quaccum, 



a purchase of, 360. 



Quails, 



price of, 344. 



Quantities, 



small, evidence of market 

 prices, 211. 



' Quart,' 



of beer, an Oxford measure, 



546. 

 Quarter Sessions, 



archives of, lost, 1 20. 

 Quarters, 



of beer, price of, 548. 

 Qiierns and quern-stones, 428. 

 Quicksets, 



kinds of, and time of set- 

 ting, 65. 



prices of, 374. 



Quinces, 



price of, 363. 



Quit rents, 



issued numerously, out of 

 estates, 126. 



Quiver, and arrows, 

 price of, 633. 



R. 



Rabbits, 



price of, 345. 



become more plentiful, 717. 



skins, 



price of, 582. 



Raisins, 



measures of, and prices of, 

 668. 



Rams, 



price of, 338. 

 Rank, 



attained by military service, 



15- 

 Rat poison, 395. 



Rates, book of, 



the publication a challenge, 



37- 

 Razors, 



price of, .624. 



Reaping, 



by acre, price of, 493. 

 rules for, 47. 



Recovery, common, 

 device of, 22. 



Reformation, the, 



effects of, on roads, 711. 



Reins, 



price of, 424. 



Rent, 



fixed character of, 3. 

 amount of, in fifteenth and 



sixteenth centuries, 128. 

 increase of, difficult, i; 



725-. . 



competition, not yet in exis 

 ence, 739. 



Representation, 



Parliamentary, of towns, its 

 uses and burdens, 96. 



Resin, 



price of, 395, 627. 



Resina, 



probably tar, 395. 



Revenue, 



from agriculturists small 

 743- 



