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1520 Wheat higher than it has been since 1438. At Cam- 

 bridge, on 2oth September, 10 qrs. were sold at I2S., 25 

 qrs. at ios., and 20 qrs. at yj., the variation on the same 

 day showing that the quality differed considerably 

 (Rogers). 



No doubt this was an ungenial summer (T. H. B.\ 



Unskilled labour, ^\d. per day; carpenter, 6\d. per 

 day (Rogers). 



Wheat, 9^. ^\d. ; barley, 5^. 2d. ; oats, 3*. 4^. ; rye, 

 4s. nd. -, malt, 6^. $\d. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, 6s. id. per tod (Rogers). 



On Monday, June i8th, was such an hideous storm of 

 wind and weather that many conjectured it did prognos- 

 ticate trouble and hatred shortly after to follow between 

 princes (Holinshed). 



1521 Wheat has fallen in price, though it is still dear in 

 London, where one price is as high as 13^. ^d. (Rogers). 



Wool, 4s. $\d. per tod (Rogers). 



Wheat, 20J-. per qr. (Adam Smith). 



Wheat, 7^. 8|*/. ; barley, $s. q\d. ; oats, 2$. 8d. ; malt, 

 $s. id. per qr. (Rogers). 



The king, having regard to the commonwealth of this 

 realm, considered how, for the space of fifty years past 

 and more, the gentlemen of England, being given to 

 grazing of cattle and keeping of sheep, had invented a 

 mean how to increase their yearly revenues, and studying 

 how to increase their pastures more than to maintain 

 tillage, began to decay husband tacks and tenements, 

 and to convert arable ground into pasture, furnishing the 

 same with beasts and sheep, so inclosing the field with 

 hedges, ditches, and pales, ingrossing wools and selling 

 the same, and also sheep and beasts at their own prices. 

 Hereof a threefold evil chanced to the commonwealth : 

 one, that thereby the number of husbandmen were sore 

 diminished ; another, that many towns and villages were 

 left desolate and became ruinous ; the third, that both 



