 | William Fleetwood - Coinage - 1707 - 220 pages
...prefent Year. * It was this Year enacted, That Butchers fliould fell their Beef, and Mutton, ly might : Beef for a Halfpenny the Pound, and Mutton for Three Farthings: Which being deviled . tor the great Commodity of the Realm (as it was thought > hath proved far other wife. For... | |
 | Winchester - 1773 - 584 pages
...relating to it, as it is quoted from Stowe, in Chron. Pre. p. 117. " It was this year, (1533) enafted, that butchers fhould fell " their beef and mutton by weight; beef for a Halfpenny the " pound, tnd mutton for Three Farthings: which being de" vifed for the great commodity of the realm, (as itwas... | |
 | Peter Newcome - Rare and special books - 1793 - 586 pages
...enafted, faith Stow, that butchers Ihould fell their beef and mutton by weight ; beef for l>alfpcnny a pound, and mutton for three farthings ; which being devifed for the great commodity of the realm (as it w?s thought) hath proved quite otherwife. For at that time fat oxen were fold for a6s.... | |
 | Rev. John Walker - 1806 - 268 pages
...these rules could not be universally reasonable. " In 1533 it was enacted that butchers should sell their beef and mutton, by weight: beef for a half-penny the pound, and mutton for three-farthings: which being devised for the great commodity of the realm. (as it was thought) hath... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...scullions. Fleetwood (Chronicon Petriosium) tells us that in 1533, it was enacted that butchers should sell their beef and mutton by weight ; beef for a halfpenny the pound, and mutton for three farthings. — In 1457, a gallon of ale was one penny. — In 1540, 126 gallons, or a pipe of claret, was 3/.... | |
 | Agriculture - 1843 - 1000 pages
...each ; seven bogs at Is. lljd. each. " In 1533 (says Stow) it was enacted that butchers should sell their beef and mutton by weight; beef for a halfpenny...pound, and mutton for three farthings; which being devised for the great commodity (accommodation} of tbe realm fas it was thought}, has proved far otherwise.... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...the rates had been generally lower. Stowe says, " It was this year enacted that butchers should sell their beef and mutton by weight — beef for a halfpenny...pound, and mutton for three farthings ; which being devised for the great commodity of the realm (as it was thought) hath proved far otherwise : for at... | |
 | William Fleetwood (bp. of Ely.) - 1854 - 508 pages
...our present purpose, under this present year : " It was this year enacted, that butchers should sell their beef and mutton by weight : beef for a half-penny...pound, and mutton for three farthings : which being devised for the great commodity of the realm (as it was thought) hath proved far otherwise. For at... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1858 - 506 pages
...rates had been generally lower. Stowe says, j ' It was this year enacted that butchers should sell their beef and mutton by weight — beef for a halfpenny...pound, and mutton for three farthings; which being devised for the great commodity of the realm (as it was thought), hath proved far otherwise : for at... | |
 | Duffield William Coller - Essex (England) - 1861 - 660 pages
...Stow, speaking of prices, says — " It wag this year enacted that butchers should sell their heef and mutton by weight : beef for a half-penny the pound, and mutton for three farthings, which being devised for the great commodity of the realm (as it was thought) hath proved far otherwise, for at... | |
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It was this year enacted that butchers should sell their beef and mutton by weight — beef for a halfpenny the pound, and mutton for three farthings ; which, being devised for the great commodity of the realm, as it was thought, hath proved far otherwise,... 
