| Average wages per day. viz. | |
| Labourers | 2d. |
| Plasterers | 3d. |
| Miners | 3d. |
| Masons | 4d. |
| Carpenters | 4d. |
| Smiths | 4d. |
| Boys, or Apprentices | 2d. |
| Prices of Oats per quarter. | ||||
| 1300. | Jan. | At Holderness | 2s. 2d. | [p. 212] |
| — | July. | At Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 2s. 6d. | [p. 113] |
| Price of Wheat per quarter. | ||||
| 1300. | June. | At Cawode, near York | 4s. | [p. 108] |
Prices in Scotland in 1285.
Oats 4d., and Bear 8d. and 10d. per boll. Wheat 16d. and 20d.[B]
[B] It has been already stated (page 39 of vol. I.), that the money of both countries was of equal value at this time.
[48] From the following entry in the Wardrobe Account, it would appear, that in this expedition the English were provided with nets for fishing in the rivers and lakes of Scotland “Reginaldo Janetori pro 2 reth’empt, per ipsum ad piscandum in repariis et stagnis in partibus Scocie ad opus Regis per manus proprias, apud Kirkudbright.” 4s. 2d.
Vide Wardrobe Account for the year 1300. p. 65.
[49] Wyntown.
“That tyme wes in his cumpany
A knycht off France, wycht and hardy;
And quhen he in the watyr swa
Saw the king pass, and with him ta
Hys leddyr wnabasytly,
He saynyt him for the ferly,
And said; ‘A Lord! quhatt sall we say
Off our lordis off Fraunce, that thai
With gud morsellis fayrcis thair pawnchis,
And will bot ete, and drynk, and dawnsis;
Quhen sic a knycht, and sa worthy
As this, throw his chewalry,
Into sic perill has him set,
To wyn a wrechyt hamillet!’
With that word to the dik he ran;
And our eftre the king he wan.”