stone 



ill! 



APPENDIX, N^. in. 



A. D. 1348 A fat wether | 



An ewe . 



A lamb 



A large hog 



Wool 



An ox hide 



A pair of shoes 10<i to . • • • 

 A pair of boots 3/ to . . • • • 

 The mortality was so great that 

 Ihe cattle were left to wander 

 throudi the fields and the corn, 

 for want of keepers. In hanest 

 Reapers could not be got under . 

 Mowers ..••••••• 



and victuals found for them ; so 

 that much of the corn was left 

 uncut. . - ^ 



The pay of a chaplain rose from I 



4 or 5 marks to J 



and even • • • 



No pnest would accept a vicarage I 



under J 



and upwards to . . • • • • 

 till a great accession of laymen, 

 whose wives had died, increased 

 the number of clergymen. 

 1349 Rent of fishmonger's shops 

 London . 



1351 Tlw statute of labourers *, enacted 1 

 this year, compelled all work- 

 men to sene for the same 

 waaes, which had been usual 

 in "the last ten years, and to 

 accept their wages either in 

 money or in wheat, at tlie 

 option of their employers; 

 but the wheat was never to be 

 rated higher than lOd a bushel, 



or ," ■ " ' 



"VVeeders and hay makers . • • 

 Mowers by the acre, or . . • • 

 Reapers of com in the first week I 



of August J 



and after that 



For tlireshing wheat and rye • • 



^ — barley, beans, peas, J 



and oats . • • J 

 A master free mason . • • ■ 

 Master carpenters, masons, tilers, I 

 thatchers, plasterers, &c. . - 3 



Inferior carpenters, &c 



Their servants or boys . . ■ • 



all without meat or drink. 

 ' A perpvtual annuity of eight 

 ' marks sterling, a£5 : 6 : 8, 

 ' secured on land, ivas pur- 

 i chased for one hundred and > 

 « twenty marls,' in Scotland, I 

 being just fifteen years pur- 

 chase -' 



. . This ftatute is furely a better "'^ence of what wa. 

 ' reckoned in thofe times a moderate price of gra.n, than 

 . he prTces ofTome particular years, which have generally 

 c leen recorded by hiftorians and other writer, on account 

 .or"he" extrUinarydcarnefs or cheapnefs, «.d from 



CHRONODd 



Knyghton, col. 25pc}. 



. Stow's Sui-vey, p 



661- 



quarter 



per day 



Stat. 25 Edw 

 cc. 1—9- 



, I, Stat. 



80 O 



Chart. Morav. qu. in 1,'' . 

 Hailes's Annals, V. ii, 

 p. 275. 



•which, therefore, it Is difficult to f-^^^^T WS;";]:^ 



'concerning what may have Y"" r InltZ^lbf "'■■ 

 [Smiths Inquiry into th. n^urc and cauf,, of tU «»«* 'J 



iions,r.i,p. i78,fi. J793] 



