PRICES AND WAGES IN ENGLAND former allowance of 2 bu. wheat for bread weekly and 5 bu. flour a year. Purchases on behalf of fellows and masters of provisions, other than commodities from the Staurum, were entered in the Manciple’s Book from the sixteenth century and few details for these exist. Though the Staurum continued to cover the main purchases for diets, the supplementary expenditure in theManciple’sBook became relatively higher. Although not strictly comparable because of the changes in methods of accounting, figures at 50-year intervals for the whole period are given in a table below to indicate the general development of receipts and expenses of the College.

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PRICES AND WAGES IN ENGLAND former allowance of 2 bu. wheat for bread weekly and 5 bu. flour a year. Purchases on behalf of fellows and masters of provisions, other than commodities from the Staurum, were entered in the Manciple’s Book from the sixteenth century and few details for these exist. Though the Staurum continued to cover the main purchases for diets, the supplementary expenditure in theManciple’sBook became relatively higher. Although not strictly comparable because of the changes in methods of accounting, figures at 50-year intervals for the whole period are given in a table below to indicate the general development of receipts and expenses of the College.