C H A P.

XI.

Prices of the Quarter of nine Bushels of the best

or highest priced Wheat at Windsor Market,
on Lady-Day and Michaelmas, from 1 595 to
1764, both inclufve; the Price of each Year
being the Medium between the highest Prices of
thofe Two Market-days.

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Years. 1621, 1622, 1623, 1624, 16252 1626, 1627, 1628, 1629, 1630, 1631, 1632, 1633, 16349 16359 1636,

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Years. 1595, 1596, 1 597 1598, 1599, 1600, 1601, 1602, 1603, 16042 1605, |1боб, 1607, 1608, 1609, 1610, 1611, 1612, 11613, 1614, 16152 1616, 1617, 1618, 1619, 1620,

2 13

£. S. d.
2
2 8
3 9

6
2 16

8

2
I 17 8
I 14 10
I 9 4
I 15 4
I 10 8
I 15 10

o

8
2 16 8
2 IO o
I 15 10
I 18 8
2 2 4
2 8 8
2 I 84
I 18

8
2 o 4
2 8 8
2

6 8 I 15 4 I 10 4

o 61 2 I 6

3

I 16

2 18 2 16 2 16 2 16

8

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BOOK

1. Years.

per Quarter.

2

1

1637, 1638, 1639, 1640, 1641,

2

3 8 8

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164297 16437

1 1 1 year 1646 fup. IIIII

2

The Wanting in the account.

2

plied by Bishop
Fleetwood.

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O O O O O O O O O O OO O OO O O

2

2

2

Wheat per Quarter.

Wheat £. S. d. Years.

£S. d. Broughtover,79 14 10 2 13 0 1671, 2 17 41672,

2 4 10 1673,

6 8 4 81674, 8 016752

3 4

8
o 01676,
o 01677,
o 01678,
o 01679,

3
8 01680,
3 13 81681,

6 8 4 5 01682,

4
4 o 01683,
3 16 81684,

4
3 13 41685,

6 8 9 61686, I 15 61687,

I 5
6 01688,

2 6
41689,
3 01690,

I 14 8 6 81691,

I 14 3 5 01692,

6 8 : 3 6 01693, 3 7

8 2 16 61694,

3 4
01695,
3 14 01696,
от 697,

3
о би бg8, , 3 8 4
2 941699,

3 4 I 16 01700,

IIIIII

2

2

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16445 16452 1646, 1647, 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653 1654, 16559 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, 1660, 1661, 1662, 1663 1664,

I

T

I 18
I 15 6
I 18

2

61739, 61740, 61741,

3 18 3 18

4 10 4 10

2 2

Wheat per Quarter.

Wheat per Quarter. CHA P. Years.

£. s. d. Years. 2. S. d. XI. 1701,

I 17 8 Brought over, 69 8 8 1702, I 9 6 1734

I 18 10 1703) I 16 01735,

2

3 17049

6 61736, 2 1705, I 10 01737,

O 1706,

I 6 01738, 1707)

6 1 8 1708, 2 I

8

2 IO 1709,

2

6 8 1710,

01742,

I 14 1711, 2 14 0 1743,

I 1712, 2 6 411744,

I 1713

2 II
01745,

I 7 6 1714,

2 10

41746, I 19 O 117152 2 3 01747, ,

I 14 10 1716, 8 01748,

I 17 1717, 2 5

I 17 1718, I 18 10 1750,

I 12

6

6 1719,

I 15 01751,
I 170 1752,

2 1720,

I 10 1721, I 17 61753,

2 4 8 1722, I 16 01754,

I 14 8 117232 I 14

I 13 10 1724,

01756,

5 3 1725 8 61757 ,

3 O 1726,

2
6 01758,

IO
1727,
2 01759,

I 19 10 1728,

2 14. 61760, I 16 6 1729, 2 6 101761,

I 10 3 1730, I 16 61762,

o I 12 101763

2 11731,

o 9 1732,

I
6 8 1764,

2 6 9
1733,
I 8 4
64 ) 129 13

8 1749,

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III

817559

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2

2

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BOOK II.

OF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EMPLOY

MENT OF STOCK.

INTRODUCTION.

occur.

In

that rude state of society in which there is Introduct.

no division of labour, in which exchanges are feldom made, and in which every man provides every thing for himself, it is not necessary that any stock should be accumulated or stored up before- . hand, in order to carry on the business of the society. Every man endeavours to supply by his own industry his own occasional wants as they

When he is hungry, he goes to the forest to hunt; when his coat is worn out, he clothes himself with the skin of the first large animal he kills; and when his hut begins to go to ruin, he repairs it, as well as he can, with the trees and the turf that are nearest it.

But when the division of labour has once been thoroughly introduced, the produce of a man's own labour can supply but a very small part of his occasional wants. The far greater part of them are supplied by the produce of other men's labour, which he purchafes with the produce, or, what is the same thing, with the price of the produce of his own. But this purchase