APPENDIX, NO. III. 



CHRONOLOG 



1237 



A. D. 1236 The portion of Isabella, the sister " 

 of Henrj- ITT, married to the 

 emperor of Germany, to be 

 paid by installments in about 

 t«-o years at London, Henry 

 being free of the expense and 

 risk of can7'ing it to Germany. 

 She moreover got a prodigious 

 quantity of pretious jewels, 

 , gold and silver plate, silk, 

 &c 



Wheat 



Barley 



Oats 



1239 Justice of the common pleas . . 



1240 Wheat 



1242 Wheat ......... 



1244 Wheat follen to 



124(j Wheat (very dear) 



1247 Wheat (still dear) above . 



1 24 5 Allo\vance for the king's bear and 1 

 his keeper j 



37 sheep for the king . ... 

 1251 Jointure of the queen dowager ofl 



Scotland *, above . . . j 

 Portion of Margaret, daughter of 



Heniy III, married to Alex 



ander III king of Scotland 

 Wheat fell to 



The justices established standard 

 weights for tlie farthing loaf through- 

 out England, proportioned to the 

 price of the wheat and quality of 

 the bread, from which the follow- 

 ing are extracted as specimens +. 



The u'ostel bread was assumed as 

 the standard for tlie others, and the 

 bread ^^'as weighed by pounds, 

 shillings, and pennies, the pound 

 of account, as well as of weight, 

 being then twelve ounces, tlie shill- 

 ing 1^, and the penny i^, of the 

 same pound. 



The zfastel ]oa{ . £6 l6 

 The coket loaf of^ 



the same wheat > 6 IS 



and bolting . J 

 or of inferior 1 

 wheat . J 

 The seminel loaf 

 The ivkeaten 



(' defrume 

 The tret loaf . . 

 The whole corn loaf 

 The wastel loaf . 



■} 



1253 

 1256 



^20,000 



quarter 



per ann. 

 quarter 



per day 



per ann. 



quarter 



3,333 6 8 

 026 



I loafl^ 

 er,to)| 



/ 



6 



10 



13 

 13 

 3 

 2 

 1 

 O 

 



1 



14 



7 



12 

 16 

 10 



8 



2 



15 



11 



when 

 wheat 

 quarter 



f Foedera, V. i, p. 353 — 

 X M.Paris, pp. 414,417. 



\Antiq. Petroburg. Fleet- 

 j wood. 



Dugdale, Orig. juridic. 

 Kennet'sPar. ant. p. 604- 

 Dugdale's Warw. p. 308. 

 M. Paris, p. 653. 



|- Wikes, Chron. 



Madox's Hist. c. 10, } 12. 

 Madox's Hist. c. 23, § 2. 

 M. Paris, p. 82g. 



Foedera, V. i, p. 46/. 

 M. Paris, p. 880. 



1 



Annales Biu'ton. p. 365. 



• M. Paris, !p p. 8j8 ftates the queen's jointure at 

 7,000 marks, inftead of 4C00 Miarks, the fum given from 

 himfelf in the fubfequeut page. See V. i p. 425. 



t In the original the weight' are 6xed lor every vari- , 

 jtion of fix pennies in the piicc of wheat, and rules laid 



down for afcertaining the weight, when wheat fold at 

 different prices at the lame time. A fimilar regulation, 

 cnaded by parhament A. D. 1266, is printed among the 

 ftatutes : but it would be ufelefs to infert it alio here. 



