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a receipt, and on the debit side of the bursar's account, though 

 some of the product is not sold ; (3) for the first thirteen years 

 they are always dearer than wheat, for a few more years they 

 are sometimes dearer and sometimes cheaper, and after 1599 

 they are always cheaper. It is impossible to doubt, in my 

 opinion, that this product progressively represents an inferior 

 article, and that as prices rise, the flour which the College con- 

 sumed was more finely bolted. 



During these sixty-one years, only three are without an 

 entry of grudgins. The first gap is in 1601, when the decline 

 in the price of the product is just visible. The second is in 

 1619, the only year in which the King's College accounts are 

 wanting. The third is in 1640. For the five years i59 I ~ I 595> 

 when to be sure the price of wheat at King's College was 

 stationary though high, the selling price of grudgins is un- 

 changed, a fact which seerns to suggest that the produce was 

 disposed of by contract. The lowest proportion between 

 wheat and grudgins is in the decade 1623-32. During the 

 last eleven years, when wheat is rather cheaper, the price of 

 grudgins rises. In the earlier years, when wheat was ab- 

 normally dear, as in 1596 and 1597, the price of grudgins is 

 lower than that of wheat, a fact which seems to indicate that 

 when wheat and flour were very dear this product deteriorated, 

 or in other words, that flour was more searchingly bolted. 

 After the old relation had been altered, there is only one year 

 in which grudgins are dearer than wheat. This is 1638. In 

 one year, 1610, there is a Cambridge entry of simila, at about 

 the same price as grudgins, a common word in the earlier 

 Cambridge accounts. 



There is also an entry of blend corn in 1599 at S os - 4^-> of 

 'corn' in 1646 at zis. 4</., and of misulane in 1647 at 34?. &/. 

 The mixed crop of bullimung occurs four times on one estate 

 in Cambridgeshire. The average at these four centres, all in 

 the first decade, is 6s. io\d. 



There are eight entries of bigg between 1588 and 1603, all 

 from the Worksop accounts. The price varies exceedingly, 



