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Appendix I. — cont 



The prices down to 1652 are taken from Fleetwood's Chronicon Pre- 

 tiosum ; from 1653 to 1764 from Charles Smith's Tracts on Corn Trade 

 (edit. 1804), pp. 125-7. These latter are unusually high, as they represent 

 the prices of the best, and not the middling, wheat. 



