312 History of the English Landed Interest. 



This assertion is corroborated by the following tables given 

 by Davies :— 



Middle of Fourteenth Century. 

 Ordinarj'^ price of da}' labour, 2rf. 

 Price of the quarter of wheat, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 

 Medium, 3s. 8rf. 

 22 days=a quarter of wheat. 

 20 days=a fat hog two years old. 

 20 days = clothing for a year of a common servant of husbandry. 



6 days = a quarter of beans or peas. 



5 days = a quarter of barley. 



2 days=:a pair of shoes. 



1 day =two gallons of ale. 



Middle of Fifteenth Century. 

 Paj^ of a labourer per day, 3cZ. 

 Price of a quarter of wheat, 5s. to 5s. 'od. 

 20 to 22 days = a quarter of wheat. 

 16 days =a quarter of malt. 



16 daj'S = clothing for a year of a servant. 



8 days =a quarter of oats. 



7 days =a flitch of bacon. 



4 days =a yard of cloth for shepherd. 



1 daj' =two to three gallons of ale. 



Former Part of Sixteenth Century. 

 Pay of a labourer per day, 3Jd. 

 Price of a quarter of wheat, about 7s. ^d. 

 26 days =a quarter of wheat. 



13 or 14 days = a quarter of malt. 

 7 days =a quarter of oats. 



1 day = eight or nine pounds of beef, pork, veal. 



1 day = seven lbs. of cheese = four lbs of butter. 



AnouT THE Middle of Seventeenth Century. 

 In Essex, the medium pay of a labourer (rated) was 13rf. 

 Price of wheat (per Fleetwood's Chronicon, p. 106), 40.s'. ; and of malt, 24s. 



per quarter, as estimated by the bishop. 

 37 days = a quarter of wheat. 

 22 days =^ a quarter of malt. 

 7 days = a quarter of oats. 

 4i days = two shirts for a man, made. 



Latter Part of Eighteenth Century. 

 Price of a labourer per day, lAd. 

 Price of a quarter of wheat, 48s. ; of malt, 42s. M. 

 41 days = a quarter of wheat. 



