Packing. 



6d. a bushel. In 1390 oysters were 8d. and mussels 5d. a 

 bushel. Jumping to 1572 the price was 4d. per hundred, 

 five hundred going to a bushel now-a-days. In 1595 some 

 oysters are recorded as fetching 6d. a peck in London. It 

 may be interesting to notice that in 1513 cockles fetched 8d. 

 a bushel, so that in the sixteenth century the prices of 

 oysters, mussels, and cockles were not vastly different. 



In 1559 a hundred oysters changed hands at 9d., and for 

 three years after the price varied from 8d. to rod. a hundred. 

 In 1614 Sclsey oysters are specially mentioned at is. 4d. 

 per hundred, and in the same year other oysters were only 

 5d. per hundred. 



In 1638 a barrel of Mendham oysters cost 5s., and a 

 purchase of 50 great oysters is recorded at 3s. per hundred, 

 and in 1639 Hunston oysters cost 3$. 4d. per hundred. In 



