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and a chest or two for linen formed the hall furniture. 

 A brass pot or two for boiling, and two or three brass 

 dishes, a few wooden platters or trenchers, or more rarely 

 of pewter, an iron or latten candlestick, a kitchen knife 

 or two, a box or barrel for salt, and a brass ewer basin 

 formed the movables of the ordinary house. The walls 

 were garnished with mattocks, scythes, reaping hooks, 

 buckets, corn measures, and empty sacks. The dormi- 

 tory contained a rude bed, and but rarely sheets and 

 blankets, for the gown of the day was generally the 

 coverlet at night. 



Wool, gs. id. per tod. Fleeces, i Ib. 8J oz. each at 

 Laweshull (Rogers). 



Wheat at Salisbury fourpence and barley twopence the 

 bushel. Labour twopence a day (Eastoti). ? Whether 

 this ought not to be 1371 (T. H. B.) 



1371 All corn much lower. Butter dear, probably a dry 

 summer (T. H. B.) 



Wheat, 6s. n|^. ; barley, 4$. \\d. oats, 2s. 3\d. beans, 

 4S. 6|^. ; peas, 3^. $^d. ; vetches, 35. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, gs. %d. per tod. Fleeces, i Ib. 9 oz. each at 

 Eastwood (Rogers). 



A comet (L. Townsend). 



1372 Prices higher. 



Wheat, TS. io\d. ; barley, 4^. g^d. ; oats, 25. g%d. ; 

 beans, 45. 8J*/. ; peas, $s. ^\d. ; vetches, 3^. 2 \d. per. qr. 

 (Rogers'). 



Wool, los. id. per tod. Fleeces, i Ib. 9 oz. each at 

 Eastwood (Rogers'). 



1373 Corn cheaper. 



Wheat, 6s. z\d.- y barley, 3^. io|^/. ; oats, 2s. 6^d.\ 

 beans, 4*. 3$ </. ; peas, 3^. 7^. per qr. (Rogers). 

 Wool, loj. per tod (Rogers). 



1374 Prices much higher. 



Wheat up to us. 6d. per qr. Drought after August. 

 A tempest on St. Denis' Day. 



