Chronicon Preciosum: Or, an Account of English Money, the Price of Corn, and Other Commodities, for the Last 600 Years. In a Letter to a Student in the University of OxfordCharles Harper, 1707 - 181 sivua |
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Sivu 178 - Hence the memory of Sir Thomas Smith is highly to be honoured, for promoting the act in 18. Eliz. whereby it was provided, that a third part of the rent upon leases made by colleges, should be reserved in corn, payable either in kind or money, after the rate of the best prices in Oxford or Cambridge markets, on the next market day before Michaelmas and Lady -day.
Sivu 145 - ... nify that the money mould not be clipped : for " a pound by tale was at this time, and long after, " moft certainly a pound in weight.
Sivu 167 - ... of corn, meat, drink, or cloth, nowadays. To this end, you must neither take a very dear year, to your prejudice, nor a very cheap one, in your own favour, nor indeed any single year, to be your rule ; but you must take the price of every particular commodity, for as many years as you can (20, if you have them) and put them all together ; and then find out the common price ; and afterwards take the same course with the price of things, for these last 20 years ; and see what proportion they will...
Sivu 61 - XX 2. he can purchase no more Wheat, Beer, or Cloth, than the other.
Sivu 167 - ... and to see how much of the modern money will be requisite to purchase the same quantity of corn, meat, drink, or cloth, nowadays. To this end, you must neither take a very dear year, to your prejudice, nor a very cheap one, in your own favour, nor indeed any single year, to be your rule ; but you must take the price of every particular commodity, for as many years as you can...
Sivu 90 - ... parliaments cannot remedy,) and so the king was fain to revoke the former act, and leave people to sell as they could ; (for a trade will do as it can, and never be forced, one way or other...
Sivu 117 - The butchers of London sold penny pieces of beef, for the relief of the poor ; every piece two pound and an half : sometimes three pound for a penny ; and thirteen, sometimes fourteen of these pieces for 1 *. Mutton 8d.
Sivu 174 - ... although for the present it may seem a tempting bargain, and a profitable exchange, and rid you of some trouble. You know not what time may bring forth, nor what great alterations may happen, nor what great mischiefs you, unwittingly, may do your successors.
Sivu 34 - It was a good law of king Edgar, that there should be the same money, the same weight, and the same measures throughout the kingdom : but it was never well observed. What can be more vexatious and unprofitable, both to men of reading and...
Sivu 177 - ... that the alteration at that time was no benefit to the priest, only as it bettered his title, and made him a perpetual Vicar, instead of an arbitrary Curate. But consider, if the portion of the Vicar had been allotted in such a certain sum of money, what mendicants must our country Vicars now have been : whereas, the assignation being...