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PRICES AND WAGES IN ENGLAND on and was presumably connected with an agreement of a new type made with the College baker in 1718. In place of receiving a stipend, he was to be paid 1s. 1d. for baking a bushel of wheat ground at the College mill. The addition of one sixteenth to the local bushel did not affect corn rents delivered in kind, since these continued to be mea-sured by the College bushel, but it involved a raising of rents against any tenant who had been commuting rents at the local bushel prices. After the College bushel was replaced by the local bushel in the determination of Pretia (1781) and allocation prices (1787) it was apparently kept in use for buying malt, for receipt of corn rents such as malt from Stub¬ bington which continued to be paid in kind. The note from the Corn Book of 1777–81, cited above, as to the new valuation at Allington adds that “ Stubbington remains in its original state.” The purchase of malt by the College bushel was probably a concession made by the maltsters but in 1785 it is noted that the College maltsters have charged 6s. 2d. per bushel for the last three quarters of the year (while Pretia were at 6s.) and that the College bushel is larger than the local bushel. It is in accord with this continued use of the College bushel for malt rent and purchases, even after the standard eight-gallon bushel had been introduced for grain generally, that the rent and purchase prices for malt remain materially above the Pretia for malt, to the end of the series in 1817 ; the prices actually tabulated for malt represent Pretia, since purchases are confused with rents in the Staurum account for the Brewery. It has been assumed that purchases of oatmeal were made by the local bushel and prices have been reduced throughout by 1/9; but this is not of great practical importance, as the price became rigid at 80s. per (local) quarter after 1770. Since salt, as well as oatmeal, was supplied by the corn chandler it, too, was probably measured by the local bushel. It may be added that in 1789 a note states that 1s. 6d. per bushel for tax is to be deducted (from the Pretia) in making up the corn (i.e. malt) rents. The tax in force at this time was 1s. 4 1/2d.per bushel, and comparison of prices shows that in 1783(1) only 1s. 4 1/2d. per bushel had been deducted. This looks as if till 1789 or at least till 1783
DOI link for PRICES AND WAGES IN ENGLAND on and was presumably connected with an agreement of a new type made with the College baker in 1718. In place of receiving a stipend, he was to be paid 1s. 1d. for baking a bushel of wheat ground at the College mill. The addition of one sixteenth to the local bushel did not affect corn rents delivered in kind, since these continued to be mea-sured by the College bushel, but it involved a raising of rents against any tenant who had been commuting rents at the local bushel prices. After the College bushel was replaced by the local bushel in the determination of Pretia (1781) and allocation prices (1787) it was apparently kept in use for buying malt, for receipt of corn rents such as malt from Stub¬ bington which continued to be paid in kind. The note from the Corn Book of 1777–81, cited above, as to the new valuation at Allington adds that “ Stubbington remains in its original state.” The purchase of malt by the College bushel was probably a concession made by the maltsters but in 1785 it is noted that the College maltsters have charged 6s. 2d. per bushel for the last three quarters of the year (while Pretia were at 6s.) and that the College bushel is larger than the local bushel. It is in accord with this continued use of the College bushel for malt rent and purchases, even after the standard eight-gallon bushel had been introduced for grain generally, that the rent and purchase prices for malt remain materially above the Pretia for malt, to the end of the series in 1817 ; the prices actually tabulated for malt represent Pretia, since purchases are confused with rents in the Staurum account for the Brewery. It has been assumed that purchases of oatmeal were made by the local bushel and prices have been reduced throughout by 1/9; but this is not of great practical importance, as the price became rigid at 80s. per (local) quarter after 1770. Since salt, as well as oatmeal, was supplied by the corn chandler it, too, was probably measured by the local bushel. It may be added that in 1789 a note states that 1s. 6d. per bushel for tax is to be deducted (from the Pretia) in making up the corn (i.e. malt) rents. The tax in force at this time was 1s. 4 1/2d.per bushel, and comparison of prices shows that in 1783(1) only 1s. 4 1/2d. per bushel had been deducted. This looks as if till 1789 or at least till 1783
PRICES AND WAGES IN ENGLAND on and was presumably connected with an agreement of a new type made with the College baker in 1718. In place of receiving a stipend, he was to be paid 1s. 1d. for baking a bushel of wheat ground at the College mill. The addition of one sixteenth to the local bushel did not affect corn rents delivered in kind, since these continued to be mea-sured by the College bushel, but it involved a raising of rents against any tenant who had been commuting rents at the local bushel prices. After the College bushel was replaced by the local bushel in the determination of Pretia (1781) and allocation prices (1787) it was apparently kept in use for buying malt, for receipt of corn rents such as malt from Stub¬ bington which continued to be paid in kind. The note from the Corn Book of 1777–81, cited above, as to the new valuation at Allington adds that “ Stubbington remains in its original state.” The purchase of malt by the College bushel was probably a concession made by the maltsters but in 1785 it is noted that the College maltsters have charged 6s. 2d. per bushel for the last three quarters of the year (while Pretia were at 6s.) and that the College bushel is larger than the local bushel. It is in accord with this continued use of the College bushel for malt rent and purchases, even after the standard eight-gallon bushel had been introduced for grain generally, that the rent and purchase prices for malt remain materially above the Pretia for malt, to the end of the series in 1817 ; the prices actually tabulated for malt represent Pretia, since purchases are confused with rents in the Staurum account for the Brewery. It has been assumed that purchases of oatmeal were made by the local bushel and prices have been reduced throughout by 1/9; but this is not of great practical importance, as the price became rigid at 80s. per (local) quarter after 1770. Since salt, as well as oatmeal, was supplied by the corn chandler it, too, was probably measured by the local bushel. It may be added that in 1789 a note states that 1s. 6d. per bushel for tax is to be deducted (from the Pretia) in making up the corn (i.e. malt) rents. The tax in force at this time was 1s. 4 1/2d.per bushel, and comparison of prices shows that in 1783(1) only 1s. 4 1/2d. per bushel had been deducted. This looks as if till 1789 or at least till 1783
ABSTRACT
16 PRICES AND WAGES IN ENGLAND on and was presumably connected with an agreement of a new type made with the College baker in 1718. In place of receiving a stipend, he was to be paid 1s. 1d. for baking a bushel of wheat ground at the College mill. The addition of one sixteenth to the local bushel did not affect corn rents delivered in kind, since these continued to be measured by the College bushel, but it involved a raising of rents against any tenant who had been commuting rents at the local bushel prices.
