296 ON THE PRICE OF HOPS. 



1632. Three localities. Cambridge buys at 64$.; Eton at 1 1 is. 6d. ; 

 Harting, the seat of the Gary Is, at IOQJ. 



1633. Prices are still high. Cambridge buys at H2J. D'Ewes 

 makes his purchases at an average of 113^. \d. Eton buys some 

 at a low price, and in April, June and July considerable quantities 

 at gos. 



1634. Three localities. The stock for Cambridge is at 88*. 

 D'Ewes buys at 112*., Eton at IQOS. 



1635. No purchases are made at Cambridge. D'Ewes gives 

 123*. 8d. Eton buys at 89 s. 5</. 



1636. Three localities. Cambridge buys at 90*. D'Ewes buys 

 largely at 96*. 6d., and Eton at IOQJ. 



1637. Cambridge buys very largely at 66 s. ^d., and probably when 

 the prospects of the coming crop were good. Eton begins to buy 

 at an average of 105*., but purchases in June at 95*., and in August 

 at 75*. 



1638. Four localities. Prices are generally very low, extensive 

 purchases being made at three of the places. But prices are a good 

 deal higher for small quantities in the fourth place, Mendham. 



1639. Prices are low at Cambridge and Eton. 



1640. Eton is alone represented, and prices are still low. 



1641. Only Cambridge prices are found. The prices are high, 

 and a very large quantity, 14 cwts., are purchased. I imagine that 

 the second entry is for the next year, as no purchase is made at 

 Cambridge in 1642. The accounts for Eton are entirely lost for 

 1641 and 1642. 



1643. Only small quantities, and those at high prices, are pur- 

 chased by King's and Eton Colleges. 



1644. With this year the domestic accounts of Winchester com- 

 mence, and are continuous, though sometimes the scribe gives the 

 price of his purchase, but renders his entry useless by omitting the 

 quantity. Prices are low. With this year the King's College prices 

 disappear. The Corporation during the civil troubles began to buy 

 of the brewer. 



1645. Three localities give low prices, as Eton and Winchester 

 also do in 1646. 



1647. Prices are low in Winchester, and for a part of the year 

 at Eton. But a second and large purchase is high. In 1648 

 Winchester alone supplies prices. 



1649. Prices are very high at Eton, but only a little higher at 

 Winchester. 



