I OF PRICES, &c. 



1196 



1197 

 U9S 



1199 



3 201 



1302 

 1205 



1212 



= ►-, rAxi ox, cow, or horse (' averii') 



Q ^llfs J A sheep (' ovis crispa') . . . 



<i ^ Es^lj ^ sheep with coarser wool . . 



■Si" La sow or boar 



Wheat (a famine) .... 



Wheat (still famine) . . . 



12 oxen for stocking the king's! 



land J 



100 sheep f 



Wool 



Wine of Poictou 



Wine of Anjou 



The best French wine .... 



Red wine 7 • ^ -i 



-,xr\ ■. ■ J- m retail . . . * 



White wine J 



Jointure of the queen dowager of) 



England, 1,000 marks, or . J 

 which was afterwards raised to 

 Wheat (a very rainy season) . . 

 Wheat (a very long hard frost) 



Wheat . • 



Peas and beans 



Gats 



10 capital horses . . . 



Price of six bisants for the king's 



oblation to the reliques of the 



saints at Reading on the Sun 



day after All-saints J 

 Cordovan boots for the king 

 Single boots — do. . . 

 Two Lombard horses do. 



This sum probably includes the 



charges of importation, buying, 



&c. 

 Hire of a cart with two horses . . 

 Hire of a cart witli two horses 7 



taken by the king's officers . j 



with three horses, do. . . 



Jointure settled upon Johannal 



queen of Scotland ... J 



•} 



1213 

 1216 



1221 



1223 

 1229 

 1230 



Wheat (after great rains) 

 Russet for the poor 



s r 



E "^ 42 



1231 



1232 



1233 



32 oxen 



l(i cows 



300 sheep 



42 quarters of seed wheat 

 75 do. seed oats . 



5 do. seed beans 



2 cart horses 

 Ransom of a Scottish knight, taken 

 prisoner by the forces of Nor- 

 way and Orkney . . . • 



Wine 



Hire of a great ship belonging to 



King Henry III . . . 

 Strong and handsome horses 

 A baron of the exchequer . . 



} 



each 



sack 

 tun 



sextarium 



Wilkin's Leg. Ang. Sax. 

 p. 347. 



7 T. Wikes, Chron. ap. 

 j Gale, 1687. 



O 3 \Madox's Hist, oftheex- 

 j cheq. c. 23, § 2. 



Madox's Hist. c. 18, § 4. 

 Anal. Burton, ap. Gale. 



quarter 



each 



pair 



666 13 4 7 Foedera, Voh i, pp. 124, 

 f 242. 



Annales Waverl.ap.Gale. 

 M. Paris, p. 212. 



1,000 



O 12 



O 12 



O 13 



G 



3 



20 



} 



Stow's Ann. 

 Foedera, V. i, p. 146. 



0116 



2 6 



007 



3S 13 4 



per day 



Compotus garderobas Re- 

 gis Johannis, in Rym- 

 er's Coll. MS. V. i, 

 n° 62. 



O 10 



O 10 7 Mag. chart. Hen. Ill, 

 §23. 



i 



Fcfidera, V. i, p. 252. 



Stow's Ann. in A. D. 1222. 

 Madox's Hist. c. 10, § 12. 



Madox's Hist. c. 23, § 2. 



Torfaei Orcades, L. ii. 



Rot. pat. 15 H. III,ni.O. 



Madox's Hist. c. 13, ^ 1 1 . 



M. Paris, Vits, p. 118. 

 Madcx's Hist. c. 21, J3. 



* Spelman explains a feme or feam to be eight bufliels, 

 or a load for a horfe : and, according to Coles's Englifli 

 diiftionary, the word is fo ufed in Effex. 



+ Thsfe oxen and fnecp were apparently lean btafts. 



J I have extracted this notice concerning the bifants, 

 becaufe they are dill offered by the !dng, and the value r-f 

 them is generally unknown. 



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