TABLES OF THE 

 PRICES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE, 



BUTTER, CHEESE, EGGS, CREAM, &c. 



THF information under this bead is small, especially in the latter pan 

 of the first half of the century. Nearly all the entries are of the South 

 of England at the beginning, and of the North at the end of the period 



Butter is usually sold by the pound, or by the firkin, the litter being 

 most frequent in Yorkshire. Sometimes the stone, the cwt, the nail, 

 or the dozen Ibs. is given. On two occasions, at Halting, and once at 

 Oxford, the stone is equal to eight IDS., but usually fourteen is the equiva- 

 lent. Eggs are measured by the ' hundred/ which is always, in the case of 

 eggs, 1 20. There are some entries of grease, for lucubrative or medicinal 



Cheese is sold by the lb., the cwt, or the stone, the cwt of Leicester 

 and Market Harborough being composed, by custom, of 120 Ibs. It is 

 specified as Double Gloucester, Glencester, Cheshire, Norfolk, Warwick, 

 Cheddar, Newbury, Guyere, Parmesan, Stilton, Old Milk, New Milk, 

 &c. The number of cheeses is often given as well as the total weight. 

 Unless otherwise specified the entries are of butter. 



1703 



IfM 



170S. 



HAHTWO. 



a cwt. . . 0/. 



O 7 /. 



</. 



Dtc. 

 a dot. *) 



an. J 4 . 



ft. graut fat 

 I /3i- 



NewCofcft. 



****. 



44 lb. - - 



56*. 



/+ 



/ 4 



9 /4 



1704. 

 Oxyoao. 



N r tV L C .' ' . 



l|ewt. 



1706. 



HA* TWO. 



' 



Ne* . C.T 



' . 5A 



1706. 



x a 



