298 ON THE PRICE OF HOPS. 



is 78^. 7<f. at Eton, 74^. 8^. at Winchester. In the next it is cheaper 

 at Winchester. In the next only Eton is represented, and the price 

 is lower. 



1679. The price is very low in both, lower than in any year since 

 1583. In 1680 it is also low. 



1 68 1-2. There is no material difference in the two quotations. 



1683. The price is again nearly fifty per cent, higher at Eton. 



1684-86. The price is generally high, especially in small pur- 

 chases. 



1687. The price is far higher at Winchester than at Eton, and in 

 a less degree in 1688. 



1689-91. The price is uniformly low, as are also Houghton's 

 prices, eighteen in number, in the last of these three years. 



1692. The Eton prices are low. At New College, Oxford, which 

 begins to brew on its own account, prices are low. At Oxford and 

 Winchester, if I can take the bag and the hundred-weight as identical, 

 they are moderately high. Houghton's prices, twenty-five in number, 

 give variable returns, from those of the North, 160^., the dearest, to those 

 of Rochester, 28.$-. 6d., the cheapest. The London price is Sos. 2d. 



1693. Houghton gives twenty-nine localities. Of these the highest 

 are at Appleby and Huntingdon, each i6os. But at Chichester the 

 price is 140.$-. The lowest price again is Rochester, 37^. lod. In 

 the three localities which my accounts give the price supplies a lower 

 average. 



1694. Houghton gives twenty-two localities. The dearest is 

 Farnham, 152^.; the cheapest, London, 97.$-. My averages from Eton 

 and Oxford are nearly the same as Houghton's general average. 



1695. Prices are very high. The average of Eton and Oxford 

 is 190^. S^d. Houghton gives fifteen localities, none of which is so 

 dear as either of the two above named. 



1696. Houghton gives fourteen localities. Of these, one alone, 

 Warwick, 220^., is dearer than the market price at Eton and Oxford. 

 The London price is 173^. id. 



1697. Hops are exceedingly dear. Houghton gives twenty-one 

 localities, of which the highest is Pembroke, 293^. 8d. t the lowest 

 Sandwich, 140^. My average is 23 is. gd., the highest of the whole 

 period ; Houghton's, 2oSs. Sd. 



1698. My accounts supply three localities, with an average of 

 224.5-. 4</. ; Houghton nineteen, with an average of 214^. >jd. The 

 highest of these latter prices is at Stafford, 280-$-. ; the lowest, Cam- 

 bridge, i6os. The London price is 2 us. Sd. 



