CHAP. XII. 



336 LOW PRICES OF 



d. 



For the bishop's table . . 6 



One man servant . .3 



One boy, ditto . . 1^ 



Chaplain to say mass . . 1^ 



1 



being equal to three shillings in the present 

 day. 



In the year 1470, Edward the Fourth held 

 King Henry the Sixth as a prisoner in the 

 Tower. He was attended by ten persons, and 

 the allowance for the subsistence of the whole 

 was at the rate of 31. 10*. per week. Fcedera, 

 vol. ii. p. 712. 



According to the Formulare Anglicanum of 

 Madox (p. 110), the Lady Anne, daughter of 

 King Edward the Third, who was married to 

 Lord Howard, son of the Earl of Surry, was 

 allowed, in 1496, ll. Us. weekly, "for her exhi- 

 bition, sustenation, and convenient diet of meat 

 and drink ; also for one gentlewoman, one wo- 

 man, one girl, one gentleman, one yeoman, and 

 three grooms, in all eight persons, 801. \%s. per 

 year ; which included their clothing and wages ; 

 besides 25 L 10s. 4<d. for the maintenance of 

 seven horses." 



It is thus seen, that as late as the end of the 

 fifteenth century, about the time of the discovery 

 of the mines of America, but before any consi- 

 derable part of their products had circulated in 



