312 History of the E^iglisk Landed Interest. 



This assertion is corroborated by the following tables given 

 by Davies : — 



Middle of Fourteenth Century. 

 Ordinary price of daj' labour, 2fZ. 

 Price of the quarter of wheat, 36:. 4cZ. to 4s. 

 Medium, 3s. 8c/. 

 22 days=a quarter of wheat. 

 20 days=a fat hog two years old. 

 20 days = clothing for a year of a common servant of husbandry. 



6 da3's = a quarter of beans or peas. 



5 days = a quarter of barley. 



2 days=a pair of shoes. 



1 day =two gallons of ale. 



Middle of Fifteenth Century. 

 Pay of a labourer per day, 3<Z. 

 Price of a quarter of wheat, os. to 5s. 6cZ. 

 20 to 22 days = a quarter of wheat. 

 16 days =a quarter of malt. 



16 daj's =clothing for a year of a servant. 



8 da3'S =a quarter of oats. 



7 days =a flitch of bacon. 



4 days =a yard of cloth for shepherd. 



1 day =two to three gallons of ale. 



Former Part of Sixteenth Century. 

 Pay of a labourer per day, ^\d. 

 Price of a quarter of wheat, about 7s. 6d. 

 26 days =a quarter of wheat. 



13 or 14 days=a quarter of malt. 

 7 days =a quarter of oats. 



1 day = eight or nine pounds of beef, pork. veal. 



1 day =seven lbs. of cheese= four lbs of butter. 



About the Middle of Seventeenth Century. 

 In Essex, the medium pay of a labourer (rated) was 13rf. 

 Price of wheat (per Fleetwood's Chronicon. p. 106), 40s. ; and of malt, 24s. 



per quarter, as estimated by the bishop. 

 37 days = a quarter of wheat. 

 22days=a quarter of malt. 

 7 da3's=a quarter of oats. 

 4J days=two shirts for a man, made. 



Latter Part of Eighteenth Centi'ry. 

 Price of a labourer per day, 14rf. 

 Price of a quarter of wheat, 48.v. ; of malt, 42s. 6(i. 

 41 days=a quarter of wheat. 



