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** 15th Edward II. — Wheat per quarter, 4s.— malt ditto, 3s.— bar- 
ley ditto, 3s. — beans ditto, 3s. — ^oats ditto, 2s."-fetches 20d.— malt 
( of wheat,) 6s ; of barley, 4s ; of oats, 2s 2d. — apples, quarter 
of, lOd. 
“ 19th Edward II. — A sturgeon, 26s 8d. — an oxe, 20s.— an oxe- 
hide, 2s 6d. — cow and calf, 12s, 13s, 15s. — sheepe between 17d and ' 
2s. — sheep-skin according to growth, 4d, 5d, 6d. — lambe, 12d.— 
goat-skin, 4Jd. — goose, 3d. — duck, Ij. — the rest as before. — wages 
of a day labourer, |d — a yeoman’s board-wages by the day, i|d, — a 
groom or page’s, 11 . — And by proclamation, 8 Edward II. the maxi- 
mum of wine was 3d the gallon. 
“Latter end of Edward III. — Wheat per quarter, 5s 4d to 10s. — 
barley ditto, 4s to 5s 4d. — beans ditto, 4s. — oats ditto, 2s 8d, to 
3s 4d. — bay-salt ditto, 18(1. — ^^an oxe, 14s to 24s.— sowe and six pigs, 
5s. — boare, 4s. — calfe, 2s. — store pigg or shote, 12d. — pigeons, 
per dozen, 3d to 4d. — haggard falcon, 20s. — In the residue, little 
variation. 
“And in the reign of Richard II. for 22 years of his reign, the 
prices of graine, cattle, and poultry, were rather cheaper than dearer; 
but the difference in effect that was, was in the temperance and sea- 
son of the yeare. A weight of woll, being 21 pound, called pondus, 
5s.— a sacke of woll, 6s 8d. — onyons, a bushell, 8d. — eggs 20 for a 
penny, which neither rose nor fell for 160 years. 
“And at this day when I write, A. D. 1622, the common prices of 
the like commodities are generally thus : Wheat per quarter, 36s.^ 
maltyn ditto, 26s 8d. — barley ditto, 20s. — barley malt, 24s. — beans, 
20s. — a draught oxe, 61 . — cow and calf, 2l 10s. — sheepe, 6s. — eggs, 
five for Id. * 
“ And for horses, in those active old ages of the three Ed ward 
and Richard II., the lord Berkeleys have paid for horses of service in ' 
the warres, and for sadle and draught, as deere as now in our daies. 
100/, 100 marks, 50/, 30/, 20/, 10/, 20 nobles, &c. 
“ The household and standing domesticall family of this lord, 
lodged in house, consisted of 200 persons and upwards, ranked into 
their degrees of servants, milites, armigeri, valetti, garciones et 
pagetti, knights, esqujres, yeomen, gromes, and pages, besides hus- 
bandmen, hi.ndes, and such other of low condition. The wages of 
one of his esquires was iiij|d a day, and a horse in his stables or 
pastures ; or ijid for him instead, and two sutes by the yeare furred 
(duas robas cum furruris,) or xxiijs iiijd; and for a garcion or boy to 
attend him Ijd a day ; which, besydes diet in his house, came to 
xxiij/ iiijs ii by the yeare. The wages of a knight, more ; of an 
inferior attendant, less. 
“ This lord was the first who used marie as a manure. Joan, lady 
of lord Thomas, though forty years a wife, never travelled ten miles 
from the house of her husband in the counties of Gloucester and 
Somerset. 
“ Tithes, why willingly paid.' — A Hebrew proverb was in use : 
'Fay tithes justly, that thou mayst be rich.”' 
