Inse, sect. 69.]
[** Wilkins, p. 126.
[*** LL. Inse, sect. 38.]
[**** Hist. Eliens. p. 471]
[***** Wilkins, p. 56.]
[****** Wilkins, p. 66.]
[******* Wilkins, p. 126.]
[******** Page 121.]
[********* Hist. Eliens. p. 473.]
[********** Wilkins, p. 126.]
[*********** Monast. Anglie. vol. ii. p. 528.]
About 1232, the abbot of St. Alban's, going on a journey, hired seven
handsome, stout horses; and agreed, if any of them died on the road, to
pay the owner thirty shillings apiece of our present money.[*] It is to
be remarked, that in all ancient times the raising of corn, especially
wheat, being a species of manufactory, that commodity always bore a
higher price, compared to cattle, than it does in our times.[**] The
Saxon Chronicle tells us,[***] that in the reign of Edward the Confessor
there was the most terrible famine ever known; insomuch that a quarter
of wheat rose to sixty pennies, or fifteen shillings of our present
money. Consequently, it was as dear as if it now cost seven pounds
ten shillings. This much exceeds the great famine in the end of Queen
Elizabeth, when a quarter of wheat was sold for four pounds.
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