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of wheat, 48 of malt and " grud," and 9 of oats ; altogether 

 122 modii of corn, which were valued at 97 I2s. y or i6s. a 

 modius. 1 The price of a quarter of wheat in 1156 is shown 

 by the Pipe Rolls to have been is. 6d., and as malt and oats 

 were worth less than wheat, the Peterborough modius may 

 be regarded as being equal to 12 quarters. In 1086 the 

 mill at Arundel rendered 24 modii of corn of a value of .14, 

 or i is. 8d. a modius, or (if this modius was the same as the 

 Peterborough modius) a little under is. a quarter. 2 



The Pipe Rolls of Henry II. show that the price of a quarter 

 of wheat varied in the thirteenth century between I s. 6d. and 

 2s., and the decennial average for 1260-70 is shown by Pro- 

 fessor Thorold Rogers to have been 4s. 5 fat 



But the liquid sextary cannot be equated to 8 bushels, or 

 64 gallons. In one passage the sextary of honey is valued in 

 Domesday Book at I s. ; 3 in a second passage it is valued at 

 i$d. ; 4 but in this latter passage the sextary at i$d. is con- 

 trasted with the sextary cum majori mensura. A few lines 

 previously it is stated that T. R. E. 24 Ss. could be paid to 

 the Crown in lieu of 36 sextaries of honey, in which case 

 the larger sextary would be worth about 1 3^. 6d., and would 

 be equivalent to between ten and twelve of the smaller 

 measure. 



1 Peterborwgh Chronicle, Camden Society, 167. 2 D. B., I. 23 a i. 



3 /</., 69 a I. 4 Id., I. 238 a i. 



