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the quarter, in 1600 at 2is. 4*/., in 1601 at iSs. 4^., and in all 

 three cases at Wormleighton. In 1602 some peas are found 

 in the same place at lod. the gallon, or 53 s. ^d. the quarter. 

 Now as ordinary field peas range in this estate from 1 2s. 8d. in 

 October to 2is. 4d. in July, and this purchase is made in May 

 and in a cheap year, it stands to reason that this particular 

 entry is of something very different from the ordinary produce. 

 So is also the peck of peas bought in London on June 8, 

 1 593~4- The year was a very cheap one, and 2,6s. Sd. may 

 well be the price of garden peas. Occasionally, as in Kirtling 

 in 1588 and at Mendham in 1626 and 1639, peascods are 

 bought by the bushel. These were also garden produce. 

 Green peas in 1597 are as 23.?. 4d. the quarter, in 1639 

 at 29^. qd. 



The better and more expensive kinds of peas used for 

 human food are known as white peas, pottage or porridge peas, 

 or boiling peas, or Sandwich peas, or. are simply indicated by 

 their price. Thus in 1601 I find white peas, in 1608 pottage 

 peas, in 1633 porridge peas. In 1601 white peas are 32^., 

 in 1602 245., in 1643 34^-. 8d., in 1647 305. Sd. In 1632 house 

 peas are 32^., pottage peas 34^. Sd. ; and in 1697 boiling peas 

 are 48^., double the price of the ordinary produce. In 1653 

 Sandwich peas are at Sos. the quarter, ordinary peas at the 

 same place being at 24^. But there are other entries, mainly 

 from Winchester, which are put down simply as peas. But 

 they occur in the manciple's book, and are part of the diet of 

 the Fellows in the days when these personages still lived at a 

 common table. 



The first of these entries is in 1640, when the price is 37 s. 4d. ; 

 the next in 1641 is 48^,, in 1642 is $js. ^d., in 1643 is 49^., in 

 1645 is 38^. n\d., in 1651 (an Eton purchase) is 57^. 4^., 

 in 1664 is 50.$-. Sd., in 1685 is 46s., in 1687 is 48^. at Harting 

 and 35j. $d. at Winchester. So the peas of 1698 are also 

 garden varieties. 



Two kinds of garden beans are named ; large Sandwich beans 

 in 1653 at 64^. the quarter, and Windsor beans in 1698 at the 



