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recollection was at least double that price, so that a 

 consideration of the cost of wheat does not help us very 

 much. At the beginning of the I4th century sheep cost 

 is. each, and meat one farthing a pound, and butter and 

 cheese were at least double the price of meat. 



In further brief illustration of prices at that period, as 

 bearing on the price of oysters, there is record of a man 

 having to carry manure at a payment of 4d. a day, or give 

 i Ad. in lieu of the service, and in 1334 another individual 

 had to furnish a man, cart, and two horses for the same 

 agricultural purpose, for which he received a farthing 

 worth of bread for the first day, and on the second day a 

 repast worth three half-pence. Xow-a-days, a contractor 

 providing a man, cart and horse, is paid from seven to ten 

 shillings a day. It may be possible to deduce a comparative 



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Herne Mill. A Landmark. 



