OF PRICES, (Sec. 



A. D. 1425 Red wine 



Sweet wine 



Wages of n stone-cutter .... 



a tiler and his two sen-ants 



a sawyer 



a ploughman .... 



For thresliing wiieat 

 Wheat for making malt . . 

 Pullets, . for 20 .... 

 Woodcocks for 8 . . . . 

 A quarter of an ox to salt 

 A cade of red herrings (720 



the cade) 



Raisins, for 13 lb. . . . . 

 Russet cloth for the shepherd 

 Gloves, 30 pair for servants 

 12 pair for the bish 



quarter 



'} 



yard 



op'sj 

 a,l 



■ \ 



servants .... 

 -142" Pension to the earl of Walachia,' 



driven out of the Grecian em- ; 



pire by the Turks . . . 

 J 429 Scarlet cloth .... 

 T433 Paid for transcribiiig a copy of the " 



works of Nicolas de Lira in two 



volumes, to be chained in tlie 



library of the Gray friars in 



London 



1435 or 7 Wheat, by an excessive wet' 

 1433 J harvest, rose to . 



and tlie poor fed upon dried roots 



and herbs. 

 Wheat afterwards fell to ... 



which seems an usual price 



1437 Wheat might be exported, when") 



not above J 



Barley, when not above .... 



1438 lVhi:at In Alcrdcui-shire . . . 

 Oat meal in do 



1439 Wheat 



Oats 



Malt 



People fed more than ever on 

 beans, peas, and barley ; and tlie 

 poor made bread of teiii roots. 



1440 Ransom of the duke cf Orleans, 



a prince of the blood of Fi'ance, 

 taken prisoner in 1415 at 

 Agincourt, 100,000 nobles, or 

 200,000 French crowns, to be 

 paid in six months .... 

 1444 Wheat 



Oats 



Peas 



Peas for seed, 4/ to .... 



Malt 



A calf 



An ox 



A pair of plough oxen 



A porker without the head . . 



Bacon 



A goose 



Pigeons 



to 



quarter 



boll 

 quarter 



a^O 8 

 I 4 

 4 

 O O 10 



1 



O 



o 



O 3i 



4 



O 18 



1 



1 



1 





 4 



8 



O 1 1 



1 1 



4 



5 



Computus prions Bur- 

 cosier, (\\\. ill Ko'i'icl's 

 Paroch. nntiq. p. 572- 



per ann. 26 13 4 Fordera, V. x, p. 374. 

 yard O 14 O Fadera, V. x, p. 43". 



.,.. 6(5 13 4 Stow's Surve}', p. sgO; 



5 4 













 



1 



o 



O 13 



Hist. Croyland. contln. 

 p. 518. ' 



Acts 15 Hen. VI, c. 2. 



Records quoted in Sin- 

 clair's Statistical ac- 

 count, V. ii, p. 537. 



■ Stow's Annalesj p. 621. 



33,333 6 8 f F^dcra, V. x, pp. 7/7. 



quarter 4 4 



1 8 



3 



060 



4 



2 



Ill 8 ). Fleetwood. 



1 3 o ' 



3 



1 8 



3 



O O 4 



O 



(i 



4 C 2 



