Parliament affixed the following prices : for the best 

 stalled ox, ^3 i2s. for other oxen, 2 8s. ; a fat hog of 

 two years old, IDS.', a fat wether, unshorn, a crown ; if 

 shorn, 3^. 6d. ; a fat goose, i\d. a fat hen, $d. ; two 

 chickens, $d. ; four pigeons, $d. ; two dozen of eggs, $d. 

 (Hume). 



1316 Average price of wheat higher than last year, though 

 the excessive prices were not realized. 20.$-. is paid in 

 several localities, the highest rates being reached in the 

 summer. Barley is not sold at such high rates as in 1315. 

 Oats are decidedly higher ; a small quantity was sold at 

 Cambridge at IDS. &/. Rye nearly as dear as wheat. 

 Beans and peas dearer. Vetches are considerably lower. 

 The scarcity of the two years 1315 and 1316 was universal, 

 and no parallel will be discovered for it. The scarcity of 

 1315 represents a quintuple rise in many places, and that 

 of 1316 almost a quadruple of the general average 

 (Rogers). 



Another summer of incessant rain (Rogers). 



Wheat, 15*. n</. ; barley, 8s. g^d. ; oats, 5^. 4^.; 

 beans, 13^. o|*/. ; peas us. i\d. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, gs. 5</. per tod ; fleeces, i Ib. 7 oz. each at 

 Fering (Rogers). 



Wheat, 30^. 6d. (Adam Smith). 



The dearth by reason of the unseasonable weather in 

 the summer and harvest last past still increased, for that 

 which with much ado was inned, when it came to the 

 proof yielded nothing to the value of that which in sheaf 

 it seemed to contain; so that wheat and other grain, which 

 was at a sore price before, now was enhanced to a far 

 higher rate, the scarcity thereof being so great that a 

 quarter of wheat was sold for forty shillings, which was 

 a great price. Also by reason of the murrain that fell 

 among cattle, beeves and muttons were unreasonably 

 priced (Holinshed). 



November 15. Great tempest of wind and rain which 



