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A TABLE, exhibiting the Prices of the various Neceflaries of Life, together with that of Day-Labour, in Sterling Money, and alfo in Decimals, at different Periods, from the Conqueft to the prefent 
derived from refpeétable 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 rvals ¢ 
Years, for the firft 600 Years; and, during the prefent century, at fhorter Periods, deduced by pap aPtation: By Sir Georce SuucksurGu Everyn, Bart. F-R.S. andA.S. uf 
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ny THE *PRICES OF VARIOUS ARTICLES AT DIFFERE) TIMES (in Money reduced to the prefent Standard and Value). tr oe 
MiscErraNnEous ARTICLES. Depreciation of Money, according to | M 
Mean ; the Price of ; 
deprecia- } . Labeur ad 
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Cattle in Hufbandry. Poultry. 
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Horfe. Ox. Cow. Sheep. Hog. | Goofe.}’ Hen. } Cock. per Ib. | per Ib. |Gallon.|perGal.larticles. per Ib. leer day \ mitcele Meat, |. Day |Mean{  — 
Rate (ele liaane ea ae ff Beet : : laneous * |Labour.| of all, | # 
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| 904 890 BOO HABER Sika 5602/1) 300 Jan z8-4> w6'of-2gerul mane: ges ||>aire | 752 Bh za 426 | nse \msrr | ages 
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* The lower Figures, oppofite each perlod, denote the Price in Decimals, whereof thofe for the year 1550 may be taken for the Integer Viz..1 
nteser, ViZ.. 100, 
Befides moft of the old Chronicles and Hiftorians, the following Books were confulted in conftru€tine th i i 
: ; Be dagpee g the above Table; viz. Bithop Fle "5 Chroti af Re + 
5299. The Sketch of the Eftablithment of this Kingdom, temp. Ed. IE. et fegg. by J. Bree, 1791. “Colle@ion of Ordinances and Res lations or A ee Lf and ad edit, Lil 
King William and Queen Mary, Lond. 1700, The 11th Velume of the Arche@ologia. An Enquiry into the Prices of Wheat and other Provifions i a, foe psi 
fol. Lond, by T. Longman, 7748. Dr. Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Sir James Steuart’s Pelitical GEconamy; and Dr. Heary’s Hitery. a England, from the Year aoa ee ee 
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