53^ 



A. D. 1343, 



- £s 



7 

 6 



5 



5 



13 

 6 



o 



o 



6 



o 



o 



13 

 13 



o 



4 

 & 



o 



o 



8 



o 

 o 



4 



4 



o 



o 



13 4 



fuing years, under penalty of forfeiture of the wool fo bought by him, 

 fhould buy wool at any lower prices than the following, viz. 



Lincoln-fhire, befl: wool £g 6 8 



Holland and marlh lands 768 

 York-lhire, beft - 768 



Craven - - 6 13 4 



Kent, Suflex, Middlefex 600 



Marfh wool in thefe three 500 

 Surry - - -400 

 Salop - - -96-8 

 Oxford (Chiltern;^6 : 1 3 : 4) 8 1 3 4 

 Berks - -600 



Nottingham - 700 



Northampton - 768 



Stafford - ^^8 to 8 1 3 4 



Derby - - 6 6 8 



Leicefter - 800 ter 



Warwick, the befl 700 Devon 



Cambridge, Huntington 6 o o Cornwall 

 Buckingham, Bedford 768 Rutland 



The fellers were at liberty to take prices as much above the limited 

 ones as they could obtain *. [Foedera, V. v. p. 2,^g.'] 



1344, January 8 '' — King Edward, agreeable to his conftant policy of 

 conciliating the neutral powers, ordered the fhirrefs of London to make 

 proclamation, that the Portuguefe fhould be treated in all refpeds as 

 friends and, favoured allies. [Fadera, V. \yp. 402.] 



January 22'' — Hitherto there had been very little gold money coined 

 by the kings of England f; fo little, indeed, that it has-been generally 

 believed that there was none : but now the king and parliament order- 

 ed money of three fizes to be coined of gold. The largefl pieces, damp- 

 ed with two leopards, and equal to two fmall florins of Florence of full 

 weight, were ordered to pafs for fix fliillings. The halves had one leo- 

 pard, and the quarters, a helmet. Soon after {]^\y 9'^) the king and his 

 council ordered another coinage of gold, confifling of pieces called 

 nobles, valued at fix fhillings and eight pennies, and halves and quarters, 

 of nobles. The exportation of money was o^aiii prohibited, with the 



Wilt-fhlre,. 

 Somerfet 

 Southampton, befl: 



Wight and New forefl 

 Dorfet - - 



' 'ereford £6 : 13 14 to 8 

 Worcefler 5 : 6 : 8 to 7 

 Hertford - - 6 



Effex (Marfh wool ^^5) 6 

 Gloucefler /^7 : 6 : 8 to 8 

 Norfolk, Suffolk 5 



Cumberland, Weflmere- 



land - 6 



Northumberland, Lancaf- 



5 



3 

 - 2 



6 



13 

 13 



8 



o 



4 

 4 



* This tnl^lc of pricej rep;iilatfrl by aft of parlia- 

 iricnt, togcttitr with the pricis prclcribcd by the 

 king in the year 1338, pi»es us a ft;Uillical ac count 

 of the comparative quality of the wools in all the 

 iliircs of England, except Chelhirc, Durham, and 

 Monmouth, the two former bciu^' p:ilatiiic coun- 

 ties, aud the later not then an Eiiglilh lliire. It 

 a'fo fhows '13, that tliofe parts of the count ly, 



wliitli produce the bed wool, arc uof tVic chief 

 leat'( of tlie woollen manufaftures. 



f In the year 1338 King Edwaul ordered that 

 the filver, which was expec'U'<l to be found in Ue- 

 von-fliire, fhould be carried to the mint, anil the 

 gold, to the exchequer. [^Firikra , V. v, p. 71.] 

 Had there been any coi.iage of gold, he would molt 

 probably have ordered both to the niiut. 



