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proprietors of that manor dealing out a certain 

 number of herrings to their servants at that time. 

 In Norfolk and Suffolk, the centre of the herring 

 trade, prices were comparatively moderate ; going 

 inland, carriage added considerably to the price of 

 the fish. 



O spring, in Kent. There are sixteen entries, prices 

 uniform, between the years of 1277 and 1295. Herrings 

 then were 8s. ^d. the thousand in that place, and 

 lowest in price at Waleton on the Eastern coast. 

 Prices were high in 1311-1320, and during the last 

 fifty years of this enquiry seven herrings were sold 

 for one penny, and at about fourteen a penny, on the 

 average of the previous ninety years. 



Before and after the plague herrings were sold by 

 the cade (500 or 600 of fish) at the rate of $s. %\d. 

 All these entries are at the close of the I4th century. 



Prices * varied. In 1318 it was as low as ^d. a Salmon, 

 pound at Oxford ; as high at Gloucester in 1327 as 

 6s. $d. 



At Westshene (Richmond) 



* : d. 

 Salmon sold in 1313 were worth 513 o 



3 10 o 

 210 

 990 

 8 i o 

 6 14 o 

 o 13 6 



This was Crown property, and besides the profit 

 derived from the sale of the fish caught, the manor 



* In 1846, and later, salmon was purchased at 6d. a Ib. in the 

 south-west of Ireland. 



