A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records There is no need of any apology in offering the facts in these volumes to such persons as are interested in the social history of the southern part of our island. They are an attempt to satisfy a total void - the complete absence of all satisfactory information on prices in medieval England. As no treatment of the subject has been in any sense heretofore attempted, it was necessary to publish the great mass of facts which have been gathered, as well as to offer comments on their significance. There is no European country, I believe, except England, the archives of which could supply satisfactory evidence of prices. Up to the time of Henry the Eighth the changes in the English currency, even if they were really operative on prices, were effected at well-known dates. I have attempted in the course of this volume to give reasons for the opinion which I entertain, that up to the reformation of the currency by Elizabeth, payments were made by weight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.