1412 Harvest not so copious in the eastern counties as 

 last year, but more plentiful in the south and west. Good 

 malting barley made full prices. 



Wheat, 4s. iof</. ; barley, 2s. n\d. ; oats, 2s. o^d. ; 

 rye, 3*. $\d. ; malt, 45. 3^. per qr. (Rogers}. 

 Wool, gs. o\d. per tod (Rogers). 



1413 Corn rather lower. 



Wheat, 4S. $\d. ; barley, 3^. 3^. ; oats, 2s. o|^. ; rye, 

 3-y. 4f*/. ; beans, 3*. o^d. ; malt, 4^. ^d. per qr. (Rogers}. 



Wool, Ss. 4\d. per tod. 



April 9. Passion Sunday was a sore ruggy and tem- 

 pestuous day, with wind, snow, and sleet, that men greatly 

 marvelled thereat, making divers interpretations what the 

 same might signify (Holinshed}. 



October 12. Were three floods in the Thames. The 

 one following upon the other, and no ebbing between, 

 which thing no man then living could remember the like 

 to be seen (Holinshed). 



1414 Uniformly good harvest. Barley of a low malting 

 character. 



Wheat, 4-r. $\d. ; barley, 3^. %\d. oats, 2S. 2\d. ; rye, 



25. iid.; vetches, 45-. 8d. ; malt, $s. o\d. per qr. (Rogers}. 



Five years of low prices ; nearest parallel from 1332 to 



1345- 



Wool, 8s. $d. per tod. 



Dry summer, and ewes in consequence gave no milk 

 at Alton Barnes. 



Unskilled labour, ^d. per day ; reaping wheat, *j\d. 

 per acre (Rogers}. 



Dry summer, and great cost of iron thereon at Horn- 

 grange (Rogers). 



1415 Considerable rise in the price of corn. 



Wheat, 6^. $d. ; barley, 4^. 6^d. ; oats, 2s. io^/. ; rye, 

 4s. od.' } peas, $s. ii\d. ; malt, 5^. id. per qr. (Rogers}. 

 Wool, is. %\d. per tod (Rogers). 



1416 Price of corn rises at the beginning of the harvest 



