Wheat, 4s. nd. ; barley, 3.$-. 4^. ; oats, 3*. id. ; beans, 

 6s. ; peas, 5^. ; malt, $s. 4^. per qr. (Rogers). 

 Average weight of a fat ox, 430 Ib. 

 Wool, 95-. 4//. per tod (Rogers). 

 Frost intense in England at end of year (Lowe). 



1548 Prices begin with the rates of the previous year, but 

 the market stiffens gradually till in March it reaches 

 i is. 8d. It falls again in May and July, but rises anew 

 towards the end of September. Wheat, Ss. i|^. ; barley, 

 $s. ii\d.- } oats, 35-. 6\d. malt, 6.r. lod. per qr. (Rogers). 



Great floods at Cambridge (Rogers). 

 483 oxen bought in London, 3 cwt. 3 qrs. 20^ Ibs. each, 

 at Ss. %d. per cwt. (Rogers). 



Probably another defective harvest (T. H. .). 

 Average rate of wages, about 3^. per week (Rogers). 



1549 Wheat begins at very high rates, and goes on increas- 

 ing till it reaches i6s. zd. in August at Cambridge. The 

 average of wheat bought for the Navy is 1 9^. 4^. 



Wheat, 165. ^d. barley, us. $d.\ oats, 6s. j malt, 

 9.?. 4^. per qr. (Rogers). 



Unskilled labour, 5^. per day (Rogers). 



A statute was passed fixing the price of beef and pork 

 at a half-penny per Ib. Mutton and veal at a half-penny 

 half-a-farthing. Tillage was abandoned, and lands thrown 

 into pasture. New laws were from time to time enacted 

 against the practice. Unskilful husbandry was probably 

 the cause why the proprietors found no profit in tillage. 

 The number of sheep allowed to be kept in one flock was 

 restrained to 2,000. Sometimes one farmer would keep 

 a flock of 24,000, and the Parliament ascribes the in- 

 creasing price of mutton to this, as the commodity having 

 got into so few hands the price of it is raised at pleasure 

 (Hume). 



Great demand for wool both abroad and at home. 



1550 Harvest again bad and prices high. 



Wheat, i8s.; oats, 6s. 8</.; malt, IO.T. 8d. per qr. (Rogers). 



