Prices and Wages in England
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PRICES AND WAGES IN ENGLAND cloth at 36s. per piece and cloth for clerks of the Chapel and servants at 40s. per piece. (Cloth for clerks of the Chapel in 1394 is included with the purchase of scholars’ cloth.) Scholars’ and servants’ cloth at slightly different prices in 1554–55 have been averaged. In 1556 when a money allowance was made to scholars the price for servants’ cloth is given in the table. In 1610–38 the total sum paid for liveries is frequently the only information given in the Bursars’ Books and prices cannot therefore always be obtained. In 1620 an entry for 145 yds. for £56 13s. 9d. has been omitted. The quantity is probably incomplete and the price unaltered at 5s. per yd. (120s. per piece). In 1626 an exceptional purchase of 21 doz. 7 ells at 3.45s. per ell is omitted. In 1534–36 and 1538–39 4 or 8 doz. yds. were bought annually at 36s. for 24 yds. These quantities suggest that this cheaper cloth was being bought for choristers, a pur­ chase afterwards made at the same price as scholars’ cloth. Prices of coloured cloth for grooms conform with scholars’ and servants’ cloth from about 1450 but are on a slightly lower level before this date, showing irregular differences of from 1d. to 5d. per yd. They are not tabulated. The tax of 8d. in the £ levied from June 1548 to Novem­ ber 1549 seems obscured by a rise in price in a much greater proportion from 1547 to 1550, followed by a level still above that of the period before the tax.

2013 ◽  
pp. 108-108
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