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to 4s. 5rf. a niiarter ; of barley, 3s. 6^(/. ; of new peas, 2s. 9Jrf. to 
2s. 1 \\d. ; of old peas, 2s. 4jrf. ; of oats, from 2s. 2c?. to 2s. 4(/. This 
was a year of moderate plenty, atid may therefore be considered as the 
standard of the prices of grain about this period. In the same year, 
1281, the price of a bullock was 8s. 6(/., of a hog 2s. Q>d., of a pig, Qd. ; 
of threshing a quarter of wheat, 3d. ; of silico (a white wheat), 2\d. ; 
of barley, \^d. ; of peas, 2c?. ; of draget (barley and oats mixed), Ic?. ; 
of oats, \d. 
" In 1389, wheat sold for 4s. and 5s. a quarter ; barley for 3s. ; oats for 
2s. ; bolymong (peas and beans grown together) for 2s. Wheat was 
threshed for 4f/. a quarter, barley and peas for 2c?. ; meadow-ground was 
mown for 6c?. an acre ; malt made for 6c?. a quarter. 
" In 1388, 30 acres of oats tied up by the job (per taskam), Is. Brf. ; 
6 acres of bolymong (beans and peas), cut and tied up by the job, 
3s. Ic?. ; 16 acres of peas cut by the job, 8s. ; 5 acres of peas and boly- 
mong cut and tied up by the job, 2s. 6c?. ; 3 acres of wheat cut and tied 
up by the job. Is. 11c?. 
In 1389, 212 reapers hired for one day, 3c?. each, besides their board ; 
13 acres of wheat cut, tied up, and treselled (treseland) at Id. an acre ; 
1 acre of oats cut, tied up, and treselled at 5c?. ; — 6 yards of canvas for 
the table, 12c?.; grinding 5 quarters 1 bushel of malt, Sd. 
" In 1682 the following wages of labourers were rated and appointed 
by the justices of the peace, at their quarter-sessions holden in the town 
of Bury St. Edmund's : — 
" Wages by the vear— 
£. s. d. 
A bayliffe in husbandry . . . . . .600 
A chief husljandman or carter . . . . .500 
A 2nd husbandman or common servant above 18 years of age 3 10 0 
Under 18 years of age . . . . . . 2 10 0 
A dairy-maid or cook . . . . . . .2100 
The best hired servants, with meat and drink for harvest .12 0 
An ordinary harvest-man . , • . . . 0 18 0 
" N.B. — Without meat and drink, their wages were doubled. 
" Wages by the day — 
A man haymaker, with meat and drink . . , .005 
A woman haymaker . . . . . . .003 
A man-reaper in harvest . . . . . .0010 
A woman-reaper . . . . . . .006 
A common labourer at other times (in summer) . .006 
, , , , , , (in winter) . . .005 
Women and weeders . . . . . . .003 
" At this time (1780), a head servant who lives in the house, receives 
for wages, "J or 8 guineas a year; a maid, .3 guineas ; a boy, 2 guineas; 
a day-labourer has Is. 2d. in summer, and Is. in winter, besides an 
allowance of beer; for threshing a coomb of wheat Is., of barley and 
oalsHr/. or 'id. ; for mowing an acre of grass, Is. 4rf. ; a weeder of Corn 
has (\d a day." 
