MINOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 327 



$\d. I cannot conceive, if these articles had been commonly 

 planted in England, that the Fellows would have failed to 

 supply themselves out of their own garden. 



Liquorice is found five times at prices varying from is. to 

 is. 6d. the pound. There are two entries of potatoes. One, 

 in 1590, is for the Queen's table, the second, 1 632, is at Harting. 

 On the first occasion five Ibs. are bought, two at 2s. 6d. t 

 one at is., and two at is. 4d. These were undoubtedly of 

 foreign origin. On the second occasion three Ibs. are 

 bought at 4d. a lb., and these also were probably Dutch. 

 There are five entries of cucumbers by the piece at prices 

 varying from $d. to I*/., and one by the dozen at $s. 4*/. 

 There is one entry of home-grown saffron, at 2s. 6d. the ounce ; 

 two of acorns, at an average of ic\d. the quarter ; one of bar- 

 berries, at ^d. the quart ; three of samphire, at &/., 6d., and is. 

 the pound. Here I may perhaps add fern ashes at 4s. the 

 quarter and malt dust at 8s., both probably garden manures. 



On two occasions I find cider sold by the bottle, and at ^d. ; 

 on four by the hogshead, in 1679 at 40^., in 1691 at 70^., in 

 1693 at 505., and in 1700 at loos. Mead is sold in 1682 at is. 

 the bottle, and in 1 702 at 2s. ^d. the gallon. 



Annexed is a table of the average price of wheat and 

 grudgins at King's College, London, with decennial averages, 

 and also decennial averages of mustard seed and mustard 

 meal. 



