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A 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 6f 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'
Year of
our Lord
THE PRICES OF VARIOUS ARTICLES AT DIFFERENT TIMES.
Wheat,
per Bushel.
Miscellaneous Articles.
Mean
Depre-
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.
Mi-an of
all.
s. d.
£■ *• d.
£. s. d.
/,. s. d.
£■ ^- d.
£■ s. d.
s. d.
S. d.
5. d.
d.
d.
S. d.
d.
d. qr.
S. d.
1050
0 2i
1 17 6
•89
076
20
060
37
0 1 3
29
020
36
42
10
42
26
1150
0 4t
0 12 5
0 4 8i
018
030
0 3
0 2
1250
1 7i
111 0
107
0 17 0
017
1 0
0 3
0 4i
1350
1 10^
0 18 4
43
66
0 17 2
106
027
61
026
45
09
75
0 2
24
0 3i
3'
56
0 3
100
56
7.5
77
1450
^ 5
1 15 8
0 15 6
0 4 Hi
0 5 1
o6i
0 3i
1550
1 lOi
220
100
1 i6" 7
100
0 16 0
100
0 4 31
100
056
100
1 0
100
0 8i
100
1 0
100
5
100
3
100
0 ll
100
1
100.
J 00
I Oi
0 4
100
100
100
100
100
ib'oo
4 Ot
0 4
2
I 2
0 6
]625 14 11
•
2 0
I 6-
0 6-i
1650 15 6
0 4
2
i6"75
4 6
5 10 0
250
360
184
2 17 0
345
oil 0
256
0 14 0
254
3 0
300
1 3
182
1 3
125
4i
90
2
100
0 8
530
250
239
1 3i
0 7i
246
239
166
188
210
1700 14 9t
0 10
3
172014 4^
'"/S"
1 0
3
2 3
0 8
287.
1740
3 «
1000
476
800
437
770
884
160
602
1 15 0
634
3^'
350
1 6
218
1 6"
J50
9
180
1 0
800
3
300
434
3 0
0 10
-^97
434
266
250
i76"o
3 9i
14 0 0
667
8 10 0
46;
700
874
170
626
1 15 0
634
50
500
1 10
266
1 JO
183
10
200
5i
262
1 2
930
3
300
492
4 2
oil
203
492
400
275
342
i7«o|4 5t
1 2
.531
^795
7 10
ly 0 0
904
16 8 0
890
i6' 8 0
2000
1 18 0
882
580
i960
30
300
1 6'
218
1 6'
150
230
5
250
1 2i
969
2i
275
752
5 3
1 5i
426
75^
511
436
Mean Appre¬
ciation by
Interjwhtion.
A. D.
1050
26
1100
34
1150
43
1200
51
1250
60
1300
68
1350
77
1400
«3
1450
88
1500
94
1550
100
1600
144
1650
188
1675
210
1700
238
1720
257
r74o
287
1750
3^4^
i76'o
342
1770
3«4
1780
427
1790
496'
1795
531
1800 1
nearly ^
562
* The small figures denote the price in decimals, whereof those for the year 1550 may be taken for the integer, viz. too.
Besides most of the old chronicles and historians, the following books were consulted, in constructing the above table ; viz. Bishop Fleetwood's Chronhon Pretlosum, ist and 2d edit. Liher Garderoltc, in 1200
The Sketch of the Establishments of this Kingdom, temp. Ed. III. et seqq. by J. Bree, lygi. Collection of Ordinances and Regulations of the Royal Household, in divers Reigns, from Edward III! to King
William and Qiieen Mary, Lond. 1790, 4to. The 1 ith volume of the Archceologia. An Enquiry into the Prices of Wheat and other Provisions in England, from the Year 1000 to 1765, by Mr. Combrune
fol. Lpnd. by T. Longman, 1768. Dr. Smith's Wealth of Nations. Sir James Steuart's Political CEconomy ; and Dr. Henry's History. ' '
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