OF PRICES, &c. 



A.D. 135(5 Brewers were ordered to sell hvo 

 gallons of ale in cities, and three 

 gallons out of cities, for a penny, 

 when \\heat did not exceed 3/i, 

 barley 2/, and oats l/i, per quarter. 



1257 Wheat by floods in autumn rose to quarter 



1258 Wheat (a very wet year) from . 



to ... . 



even damaged wheat sold for . 



1259 Meal (very dear) boll 



1262 Chief justice of tke common pleas per ann. 

 Justice of do - . 



1264 Pepper, formerly pound 



now by reason of frequent piracies 



wine also raised from . 40/" to tun 



1265 Chancellor of England for hini-T 



self and the clerks of the chan- >■ per ann. 



eery J 



A baron of the exchequer . . . ■ 



* 1272 A labourer per day 



A har^'est man 



Harrowing witli one horse . . . 



1274 A bible in 9 vol. fairly written, T 



with a gloss or comment, 50 > .... 



marks J 



1275 Rent of a house in Milk-streetl 



occupied by the lord-mayor of > per ann. 



London J 



"o^'g"! Oats in Scotland bollf 



y b 2 Barley 



^1 I or 



.5 S ^ I JVheat .... usually . . 



= ^ 2 J ivkeii scarce 



12S0 The chancellor and barons of the 1 



exchequer, each f " 



The remembrancer, for self and' 



clerks 



1281 Portion of Margaret, princess of 

 Scotland, married to Eric king 

 ofNoricay, 14,000 marks, to be 

 earned to Norway at the ex- 

 pense of the king of Scotland 

 For one half of the portion the 

 king of Scotland might, at his option, 

 assign to the king of Norway, during 

 the marriage, rents of lands amount- 

 ing to a tenth part of the money, or 

 700 marks yearly, which was actu- 

 ally done. 



The princess was to have a join- 

 ture of 1 ,400 murks. 



In both these stipulations an an- 

 nuity ufion the life of Margaret, then 

 in her twenty first year, is valued at 

 ten years purchase. 

 1283 A slave and his family sold by the! 

 abbat of Dunstable for . . J 



■ Annales Burton, p. 305. 



e£0 10 O M. Paris, p. gjs. 



« . c rv r Hemingford, Chi'on. — 

 OiJ M Stows Ann. 



f Scotichron. V. ii, p. 93, 

 I ed. GoodaJl. 



4 



f Dugdale's Orig. juridic. 



^ 1 



O > Wikes, Chron. 



4 J 



333 6 8 Rot. pat. 49 Hen. HI. 



100 



40 O 



O O 



O 3 



6 13 



40 Dugdale, Orig. juridic. 



O O \{^ 



2 vDugdale's Wanv. p.4l6. 



10 J 



33 6 8 S tow's Annales. 



f S tow's Survey of Lond- 

 ^ '^ ° I on, p. 530, ed. 16I8. 



4 



8 



10 



1 4 



18 



Wyntown's Cronykil, V' 

 i, p. 401. 



40 O I^Madox's Hist. exch. 

 40 J 



21. 



9,333 6 8 



Fcedera, V. ii, pp. I079, 

 1090. — Prynne's Hist. 

 olK. John, &c.p.518. 



13 4 Ann. Dunst. 



* Fleetwood, on the authority of an anonymous writer, 

 ftates the price of wheat in IJ70 from £4:16:010 

 £6: 8 ;o, a ijuarter, which feems incredibly high. M. 



Paris, a far fuperior author, marks that year, and the pre. 

 ceding and following ones, as abundant. 



i For the quantity of the boll fee below at A. D. 1384, 

 note. 



