332 COST OF CHAP. xii. 



Jates that Hugh de Bosca, sheriff of Hampshire, 

 in 1199, stocked the king's lands of Mienes 

 with twelve oxen at 9*. each, and one hundred 

 sheep at 1*. each. 



In the year 1299, we find in the Chronicon 

 the prices of several articles as fixed by the 

 Common Council of the city of London, and as 

 they are for the most part that kind of food 

 which must be considered as luxurious, it is not 

 surprising, considering the state of society, in 

 which the middle classes were few, and the 

 higher classes were supplied with them from their 

 own domains, and the consequently contracted 

 market for them, that they should appear high 

 when compared with the prices of sheep and 

 oxen. The tarif is as follows, viz. a cock, Qd. ; 

 a goose, Is. - y a capon, T^d. ; it pullets, 9d. ; 

 plover, 3d. ; a swan, 9*. ; a crane, 3s. ; 2 wood- 

 cocks, 4<%d. ; a fat lamb from Christmas to Shrove- 

 tide, 4s., afterwards Is. ; wheat, 5s. per quarter, 

 and in some parts of the country 4*. per 

 quarter. 



In the year 1315, the act of the 8th Edward 

 Second was passed on account of the intolerably 

 high price of provisions, by which it was enacted 

 that those who would not sell their commodities 

 at the following rates should forfeit them to the 

 king, viz., a best ox not fed with corn at 4?8s., 

 if fed with corn, 7^. ; a best fat cow at 36*. j a 



