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been found six times; one with seven in 1590 at 19^.; one 

 with six in 1593 at us. %d. ; one with five in 1606 at 2os. ; 

 one with five in 1615 at 305. ; one with nine in 1693 at 5oj. ; 

 and one, given with no number, in 1695 at 4os. These figures 

 indicate a considerable rise in price. A fat sow in 1592 is sold 

 for 39^., and the dressed carcass, according to the price of the 

 time, must have been close upon three cwts., or near seventeen 

 score. 



Hogs and porks, the word appearing to be used indifferently, 

 are occasionally found. During the first thirty years thirteen 

 such entries are found, with an average of los. id. But after 

 this the price rises rapidly, due no doubt to the fact that the 

 animal was more thoroughly fatted. In 1643 a pork is 24^., 

 the latest entry under this name. But the five entries of hogs 

 give the following prices : 1655, 33^. ^d. ; 1656, 30^. ; 1693, 90^. ; 

 1 694, 55^. ; 1 696, 92^ . These later prices all come from Halting, 

 the seat of the Caryls. 



I have already commented on the price of pork in 1586. In 

 1638 it is purchased by the quarter at 6s. $d., i.e. at 2$s. 8</. 

 the carcass, which corresponds with the prices just referred to. 

 Later in the period pork is generally $d. a pound. But in 

 1677 a leg is bought at Woodstock, 7 Ibs. in weight, 

 at 6d. ; and another at the same place in the following year 

 of the same weight and at the same price. Bacon is always 

 considerably dearer than pork. In 1595 it is is. <)ld. the 

 stone in London, i.e. nearly z\d. a pound. In 1614 it is at 

 4*/. at Hart ing, where two flitches, sold at 14^. a piece, should, 

 on the same computation, be of 42 Ibs. each. In 1634 there 

 is an entry in D'Ewes' accounts at ^d. In 1643 and 1644, 

 New College, Oxford, laying in provisions against the siege, 

 buys sixteen flitches of bacon, six in the first year, each at a little 

 over 45 Ibs., at $d. the lb., and ten in the second, of less weight, 

 between 33lbs. and 50 Ibs., eight in the aggregate 341 Ibs., at5</., 

 one of 33 Ibs. at 4J</., and one of 38 Ibs. at 4\d. In 1659, four 

 nails of bacon are bought at Horstead Keynes at $d. the lb. 

 In 1 679, 154 Ibs. are sold at Harting at 6d., and in 1692 a pound 



