344 ^ TIIE PRICE OF STOCK AND MEAT. 



costs jd. at Maidenhead, while 18 Ibs. are bought by the 

 Winchester manciple at $d. Collars of brawn are bought in 

 Oxford in 1643 and 1646 at 4s. ^d. and 4s. 6d. 



During the first six years of his * Collections,' i. e. till he 

 altered the form of his paper, Houghton gives prices of pork. 

 The entries are curious, because they indicate the time when 

 pork was in season. In 1692 the quotation ceases at the end 

 of May, and reappears at the beginning of August. In 1693 

 the last quotation is on April 20. In 1694 the first is on 

 Nov. 26, the last on May no. In 1695 the first is on Nov. 8, 

 the last on April 25. In 1691 the price at Falmouth is 2is. 

 the cwt., in London 25^. 6d., or by the stone is. In 1692 at 

 is. *]\d. the stone. In 1693 it is 2,2s. the cwt. at Falmouth in 

 October, 23^. in December, 26s. in May. These prices are no 

 doubt of ship stores. It is $d. a pound in Dorchester and 

 Norwich, 2s. 8f^. in London by the stone in the same year, 

 2s. 8f</. in 1694, 2s. >]d. in 1695, and 2s. $\d. in 1696. 



There is yet a third source of information as to the price 

 of pork, in the register of the Victualling Office, from 1683 to 

 1747, printed by Arthur Young in his Political Arithmetic, and 

 referred to for the price of beef above. This gives an average 

 of 25.$-. lod. the cwt. for navy pork in the decade 1583-1692, 

 and 32.$-. id. for 1693-1702. These prices give 35. i\d. the 

 stone of 14 Ibs. for the first, and 4s. for the second period. 



HORSES. Most of my entries of the price of horses are those 

 for saddle and coach, some of the Colleges of Oxford and 

 Cambridge providing the latter convenience for their Heads, 

 and some private persons also recording their purchases in 

 their domestic accounts. As before I have taken the highest 

 prices, as best indicating the state of the market. The infor- 

 mation is copious, only five years failing to supply me with 

 evidence. A very considerable amount of this evidence comes 

 from an account book of a horse-dealer in Essex, which I 

 purchased a good many years ago. I can identify the country 

 from the entries of markets, but I cannot find the writer's 

 name or residence. 



