Wheatley, John, An essay on the theory of money and principles of commerce

(London :  Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, by W. Bulmer and Co.,  1807-1822.)

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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
 

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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
 

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0    4
 

2
 


 

I    2
 

0  6
 


 


 


 


 


 

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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
 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

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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
 

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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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