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Wheat, TS. \d. ; barley, 5*. ; oats, 25. 8f </. ; rye, 5*. 4^. ; 

 beans, 3*. i id. ; malt, 3.?. 8|^. per qr. (Rogers). 

 Probably an abundant harvest (T. H. .). 



1538 Wheat, 6s. n\d. ; barley, 4^. i\d. ; oats, 2s. <)\d. ; rye, 

 5*. $d. ; beans, 65. &d. ; malt, $s. per qr. (Rogers). 



Excessively hot and the rivers dried up in summer 

 (Lowe) . 



1539 On the whole the harvest was generally good. Prices 

 have now fallen to the old averages. 



Wheat, $s. j \d. ; barley, 5^. 4^. ; oats, 2s. 8d. ; beans, 

 $s. ; malt, 5^. 2d. per qr. (Rogers). 



Excessively hot summer again (Lowe). 



Average wages of an artisan the last 140 years, 3*. 'a 

 week; of an unskilled labourer, 25. a week (Rogers). 



Oxen, 30^. each ; sheep, 3^. ; wheat, 6s. 8d. per qr. ; 

 malt, 4-r. ; oats, 2s. 8//. per qr. ; hops, 125-. per cwt. ; 

 calves, 4s. ^d. each ; chicken, id. partridges, i^. zd. ; 

 pheasants, 2s. 6d. ( Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xv.). 



1540 After a calamitous year, fine weather and heat lasted 

 from February till September iQth, during which interval 

 rain only fell six times; an exceedingly early spring. 

 Cherries ripe by end of May ; grapes ripe in July ; middle 

 of harvest, June 25th. This year was remarkable for the 

 abundance of corn and fruit (Lowe). 



Wheat, 5J-. 8^. ; barley, 5^. 4^. ; oats, 3^. od. ; beans, 

 5-r. 4d. per qr. (Rogers). 



An enclosure of eleven acres of land let at Barking at 

 is. ^d. per acre, and 6 acres at 3^. ^d. per acre (Rogers). 



Very cold winter. The Zuyder Zee entirely frozen 

 over Chambers). 



In the latter end of this summer was universally 

 through the most parts of this realm great death by a 

 strange kind of hot agues and fluxes, in which season was 

 such a drought that wells and small rivers were clean dried 

 up, so that much cattle died for lack of water (Holinshed). 



1541 Wheat, gs. o^d.; barley, 4^. 6d. ; oats, 25. iod. ; 

 peas, 5-r. ; malt, 4^. lod. per qr. (Rogers). 



