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v Table exhibiting: the Prices of various Necessaries of Life, together with that of Day Labour, in sterling Money, and also in Decimals, at different Periods, 
from the Conquest to the present Time, derived from respectable Authorities; with the Depreciation of the Value of Money inferred therefrom. To which is 
added, the Mean Appreciation of Money, according to a Series of Intervals of 50 Years, for the first 600 Years ; and, during the present Century, at shorter 
Periods, deduced by Interpolation. 
Mean Appre- 
ciation by 
Interpolation, 
A. D. 
IO5O 
2 6 
1 IOO 
34 
11,5° 
43 
12CO 
51 
I25O 
60 
I3OO 
68 
1350 
77 
1400 
83 
1450 
88 
1500 
94 
1-550 
100 
1600 
M4 
1650 
188 
1675 
210 
1700 
238 
1720 
237 
1740 
287 
1750 
3 * 4 : 
1760 
342 
1770 
384 
1780 
427 
1 79 ° 
4 9 6 
1795 
53 1 
i8oo*\ 
nearly j 
5 6< * 
Year of 
our Lord 
THE PRICES OF VARIOUS ARTICLES AT DIFFERENT TIMES. 
Wheat, 
per Bushel. 
Miscellaneous Articles. 
Mean 
Depre- 
ciation 
from 
these 12 
Articles. 
Beef and 
Mutton, 
per lb. 
Labour 
in Hus- 
bandry, 
per Day. 
Depreciation of Money, according 
to the Price of 
Cattle in Husbandry. 
Poultry. 
Butter, 
per lb. 
Cheese, 
per lb. 
Ale, per 
Gallon. 
Small 
Beer, 
per 
Gallon. 
Horse. 
Ox. 
Cow. 
Sheep. 
Hog. 
Goose. 
Hen. 
Cock. 
Wheat. 
12 mis- 
cellane- 
ous Ar- 
ticles. 
Meat. 
Day 
Labour. 
Mean of 
all. 
5 . d. 
3. 5 . d. 
£. s. d. 
£■ s - d 
£. s. d. 
£. s. d. 
s, d. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
d. 
d. 
s. d. 
d. 
d. qr. 
s. d. 
IO5O 
0 2 i 
1 17 6 
* 89 
O76 
20 
060 
37 
O 1 3 
z 9 
0 2 0 
36 
42 
IO 
42 
26 
1150 
0 
0 12 5 
0 4 8i 
Ol8 
03° 
0 3 
0 2 
1250 
1 7 i 
111 0 
107 
O 17 O 
017 
1 0 
0 3 
0 4 1 
1 35 ° 
1 10! 
018 4 
43 
1 4 6 
66 
0172 
106 
0 2 7 
6l 
0 2 6 
43 
09 
75 
O 2 
24 
0 3 t 
3 1 
5 6 
0 3 
100 
56 
73 
77 
143 ° 
1 3 
1 15 8 
0 13 6 
O 4 ll| 
O 3 1 
0 6i 
0 .84 
155 ° 
1 lOj- 
2 2 0 
100 
1 16 7 
IOO 
0160 
IOO 
0 4 3 l 
IOO 
036 
IOO 
1 O 
IOO 
0 8± 
IOO 
1 O 
IOO 
5 
IOO 
2 
ICO 
0 ij 
IOO 
1 
IOO 
IOO 
1 °1 
0 4 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
1600 
4 °T 
0 4 
2 
1 2 
0 6 
1623 
4 11 
2 0 
1 6 
0 6-L 
1630 
5 6 
0 4 
2 
1675 
4 6 
3 10 o 
25O 
360 
184. 
2170 
345 
011 0 
256 
0 
N> 
0 
3 0 
300 
1 3 
182 
1 3 
125 
4 i 
90 
O' 
ICO 
0 8 
53 ° 
2 1 
250 
239 
1 3 i 
0 7 i 
246 
2 39 
166 
188 
210 
0 
0 
r-t 
4 9 t 
O IO 
3 
1720 
4 4 i" 
1 O 
3 
2 2 
0 8 
174° 
3 8 
10 0 0 
476 
800 
437 
O 
00 
00 
160 
602 
1 13 0 
634 
36 
35 ° 
1 6 
218 
1 6 
150 
9 
180 
3 t 
US 
1 O 
800 
3 
300 
434 
3 0 
0 10 
197 
434 
2 66 
230 
287 
1760 
3 9 i 
14 0 0 
667 
8 lOO 
465 
700 
874 
170 
626 
1 13 0 
6 34 
5 0 
500 
1 10 
2^6 
1 10 
‘83 
10 
200 
3 t 
262 
1 2 
930 
3 
300 
492 
4 2 
0 11 
203 
49 3 
400 
273 
34 2 
0 
00 
n 
r-< 
4 3 t 
1 2 
1793 
7 10 
IOO O 
9 ° 4 
16 8 0 
890 
16 8 0 
2000 
118 0 
882 
580 
i960 
3 0 
3 °° 
1 6 
218 
1 6 
150 
11 i 
230 
3 
25O 
1 H 
969 
H 
275 
75 2 
5 3 
1 5 i 
426 
752 
511 
436 
33 1 
* The small figures denote the price in decimals, whereof those for the year 1550 may be taken for the integer, viz. 100. 
Besides most of the old chronicles and historians, the following books were consulted, in constructing the above table; viz. Bishop Fleetwood’s Chronicon Pretiosum, 1st and ad edit. Liber Garderola . ?, in 
1299. The Sketch of the Establishments of this Kingdom, temp. Ed. III. et seqq. by J. Bree, 1791. Collection of Ordinances and Regulations of the Royal Household, in divers Reigns, from Edward III. to 
King William and Queen Mary, Lond. 1790, 4to. The nth volume of the Archaologia. An Enquiry into the Prices of Wheat and other Provisions in England, from the Year 1000 to 1765, by Mr. Combrune, 
fob Lond. by T. Longman, 1768. Dr. Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Sir James Steuart’s Political CEconomy ; and Dr. Henry’s History. 
