448 ON THE PRICE OF FOREIGN PRODUCE. 



Lord North buys two and a-half tuns of Gascony at 1 1 the 

 tun; Shuttleworth in 1584 two hogsheads of white and claret 

 at 4 2s. 6d. ; Wharton of Kirkby Stephen in 1586 buys four 

 hogsheads of claret at 18, and a tun of the same at 40 ioj. 

 These must have been choice wines. He also has two 

 hogsheads of white at 4 los. In the same year Lord North 

 buys six hogsheads of claret (four to the tun) at 24 the tun, 

 a price which may be contrasted with that given by Wharton. 

 In 1587 Shuttleworth pays J2s. 6d. for a tierce of claret, and in 

 1588 88s. for a hogshead. In the same year Lord North pays 

 8 for a butt of sack, and 5 os. 8d. apiece for six hogsheads 

 of claret. In 1589 and 1590 Shuttleworth pays .5 a hogshead 

 for white and claret, and next year 8 6s. 8d. for a tierce and 

 a hogshead, the price per tun being 20. In 1594 a rich 

 London merchant, living in Bassishaw Ward, buys four and 

 a-half tuns of Gascony at 22 ioj., and one and a-half 

 hogshead and a tierce of the same wine at a cost of g 15^. 



In 1624 Lord Spencer buys two hogsheads of white sack 

 and claret at j each, and in 1631 a hogshead of canary and 

 a hogshead of claret at 18 together. A hogshead of claret 

 costs the owner of Mendham 6 i$s. 6d. in 1627, and two 

 hogsheads of sack are bought in 1631 by Caryll at 8 each. 

 In 1632 the same person buys a tun of claret for ^"18, a 

 hogshead of sack, two of claret, and one of vinegar for 19 I2s. 

 together. In the next year he gives $os. apiece for two hogs- 

 heads of claret. 



The next large purchases are made by Eton. In 1661 it 

 buys a tierce of claret in a double cask for 89^., in 1662 

 another tierce for 82s. 6d., in 1663 and 1664 two others at 90^. 

 In 1669 I find a hogshead of Aubryan at 12, another of 

 Sauterne at the same price, six tierces of claret at 4 $s. 4d., 

 and another of ' wine ' at 4. There is a ' piece ' of Cawos 

 wine in 1687 at 19, a hogshead of claret bought by Caryll in 

 1699 at 16, another in 1701 at 1$, and a hogshead of ' palm 

 wine,' said to contain 63 gallons, for 35. The London 

 purchases were made by Johnson, a rich shipbuilder of 



