TABLES OF THE 



PRICES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. 



GRAIN. 



Is the following tables of the price of Grain, the evidence of each year 

 is, as in the preceding volumes, ranged under five heads: I. Wheat; 

 11 Barley and Malt ; III. Oats and Oatmeal; IV. Rye; V. Beans, Peas, 

 and Vetches. Malt and Peas are again designated by the letters M. and 

 P., and when these letters are not inserted, the entry will be understood 

 to be of Barley or Beans as the case may be. 



It must not be forgotten that in recording the dates of entries the year 

 is always reckoned from one Michaelmas to another, so that the volume 

 opens at Sept. 29, 1703, ami ends Sept. 29, 1794. This course was 

 adopted in the first volume of the History of Prices and Agriculture, and 

 of course has been maintained throughout. The reason is given on 

 page 3 of volume VI. 



The evidence taken from the four towns of Oxford, Cambridge, 

 chestcr, and Windsor, is of the price taken for the corn rents, 

 allowed to be claimed by the institutions connected with those places 

 under the Act of 1576. The prices are naturally the highest in th<- 

 market, and refer to the best quality of grain. The variations in j 

 between these and the ordinary purchases illustrate probably the utmost 

 divergence of the market *. 



The measure of quantity in this century approaches uniformity more 

 nearly. Few entirely anomalous measures are recorded, the variations in 

 amount also are less frequent. The All Souls prices are, however, 

 9 gallons to the bushel, as are the Eton prices. My father states in 

 his sixth volume that he was informed by the officials of the Eton 

 treasury that their quarter was always the same as that of Winchester, 

 while the Bursar of that College had told him that in reckoning tlu 

 Winchester rents the tradition has always been to add a sixteenth to the 

 quantity. 



Entries appear under the year 1728-29 of prices at Falmouth and 

 Looe. The Falmouth bushel is 22 gallons, the Looe 18; but they are 

 reduced to the normal 8 in the text 



1 UntO 1776. St. John** College, Cambridge, ha* ua ttn^ay. ia tbt /c*r, ftter that 

 it only hat four at the Mul qaanm. 



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