ON THE PRICE OF HOPS. 293 



1588. Four localities. The price rises as the summer goes on. 

 Eton gives the lowest average. 



1589. Four localities. The price is a good deal higher. Five 

 separate purchases are made at Cambridge (average 6os. 6d.), four at 

 Eton (55 s. iod.). The price is lower in the later purchases. 



1590. Two localities. Hops very cheap. Large quantities bought 

 at Cambridge and Eton ; the latter described as English. Up to this 

 time it seems likely that much of the hops bought was of foreign origin. 



1591. Four localities. Hops much cheaper at Eton than elsewhere. 

 The Gawihorp purchase is made at Stourbridge fair, and is the highest 

 of the year. 



1592. Three localities. The cheapest at Worksop, but only small 

 quantities purchased. 



1593. Three localities. Hops very cheap, especially at Cambridge, 

 where a very large quantity (nearly 14 cwts.) is bought. Of these, 

 7 cwts. are bought at Stourbridge. 



1594. Four localities. Hops Very cheap. The lowest price is at 

 Cambridge. 



1595. Three localities. The lowest price is at Stourbridge fair, a 

 purchase by Shuttleworth. The small purchases at Worksop raise 

 the average perhaps unduly. Eton is undertaking a hop-garden of 

 its own. 



1596. Two localities. The price at Cambridge is low. 



1597. Two localities. The price at Cambridge is unchanged. 

 1596 and this year are the two years of the great famine in Eliza- 

 beth's reign. 



1598. Three localities. The price at Eton low, though the home 

 crop was a failure. The other purchases are small. 



1 599- Three localities. The Cambridge price low, and the same 

 as that of Eton in the previous year. The other small purchases high. 



1600. Three localities, but two of them recording only small pur- 

 chases. The Cambridge entry ($ cwts.) is at 40*. 



1601. The price from the only source of information, Cambridge, 

 is much higher than in the previous year. 



1602. Three localities. Eton has now acknowledged that its hop- 

 garden is a failure, though it is still continued. The price at Cam- 

 bridge is very high indeed, the average being 187^. id. That of Eton 

 is 1061. Sd. Some of the Cambridge purchases are of English, some 

 of Flemish hops. 



1603. The Cambridge price is comparatively low, 56*. That of 

 Eton is much higher. 



