[246] Thorold Rogers, History of Agriculture and Prices, iv. 120; and Work and Wages, p. 389.

[247] See above.

[248] Thorold Rogers, Work and Wages, pp. 390-1.

[249] Archaeologia, xi. 200.

[250] Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, p. 396.

[251] Cullum, Hawsted, p. 215. It is strange to find food reckoned so highly; if the common labourer at Hawsted received his food, he was only paid 5d. a day in winter, and 6d. in summer; if one man's food was reckoned at half his wages, how far did the other half go in feeding and clothing his family?


CHAPTER XI

1600-1700

CLOVER AND TURNIPS.—GREAT RISE IN PRICES. MORE ENCLOSURE.—A FARMING CALENDAR