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liners , together with a cow’s pasture in summer, Appendixand an ox’s in winter William of Malmesbury I-mentions it as a remarkably high price that WilliamRufus gave fifteen marks for a horse, or aboutthirty pounds of our present money 5S . Betweenthe years ipo and icoo , Ednotli bought a hideof land for about 118 shillings of present money’*.

This was little more than a shilling an acre,whjch indeed appears to have been the usualprice, as we may learn from other accounts’ 7 .

A palfrey was fold for twelve shillings about theyear 966 The value of an ox in king Ethelred’stime was between seven and eight shillings; acow about six shillings Gcrvas of Tilburyfays, that in Henry I.’s time, bread which wouldsuffice a hundred men for a day was rated at threeshillings , or a shilling of that age; for it is thoughtthat soon after the conquest a pound sterling wasdivided into twenty shillings : A sheep was ratedat a shilling , and so of other things in proportion.

In Athelstan’s time a ram was valued at a Ihdhntj,orlotir-pence Saxon The tenants of Shirebumvvere obliged , at their choice, to pay either six-pence or four hens l ° l . About 123-5 d ie tibbotof St. Albans , going on a journey , hired sevenhandsome stout horses ; aud agreed , if any of

" LL. Hie, § 3S S! P. mt.

” Kill. Raraes. p 415. 1,7 shit. Eliens. p. 473.

" Ibid. p. 471. ” \C ; illtins , p. 126.

100 SVilkins, p. 56. 101 iUonast. Anglic, vol. ii. p. 528