[89] Walter of Henley, p. 63.
[90] Crondall, Records, Hampshire Record Society, i. 65.
[91] See Thorold Rogers, various tables in vol. i. of History of Agriculture and Prices. Compare these with the prices on the Berkeley estates from 1281 to 1307, omitting years of scarcity: wheat, 2s. 4d. to 5s.; oxen, 10s. to 12s.; cows, 9s. to 10s.; bacon hogs, 5s.; fat sheep, 1s. 6d. to 2s.; and in the early part of Edward III's reign, wheat, 5s. 4d. to 10s.; oxen, 14s. to 24s. Other prices about the same.—Smyth, Lives of the Berkeleys, i. 160.
[92] If it is true, as generally stated, that the mediaeval ox was one-third the size of his modern successor, it is apparent that he was a very dear animal. Cattle at this date suffered from the ravages of wolves.
[93] Crondall, Records, Hampshire Record Society, i. 64.
[94] History of Agriculture and Prices, i. 528.
[95] Seebohm, Transactions of Royal Historical Society, New Series, xvii. 288, says that rent in the fourteenth century was commonly 4d.; the usual average is stated at 6d. an acre.
[96] Domesday of S. Paul, Camden Society, p. li.
[97] History of Agriculture and Prices, i. 26.
[98] Pioneers of Agriculture, p. 13.