of Agriculture
and Prices in England_.[14] The averages given in his tables are based
upon records of actual sales. They furnish, therefore, the exact
information needed in connection with the theory that a rise in the
price of wool relatively to that of wheat was the cause of the
enclosure movement in England. In the century and a half before 1400,
there were wide fluctuations in the prices of both commodities, but
the price of wool rose and fell with that of wheat. The first quarter
of the fourteenth century was a period of falling prices. The fall
continued in the case of wool until about the middle of the century,
when a recovery began, culminating about 1380. A rise in the price of
wheat occurred sooner than that of wool and reached its climax about
1375. In the last quarter of the century the prices of both wool and
wheat fell, with a slight recovery in the last decade of the century.

TABLE I

PRICES OF WHEAT AND WOOL, 1261-1582. DECENNIAL AVERAGES

Wheat, per Wool, per
quarter tod (28 lbs.)
s. d. s. d.

1261-1270 4 8-5/8 9 -
1271-1280 5 7-3/4 9 2
1281-1290 5 0-7/8 8 10
1291-1300 6 1-1/8 7 10
1301-1310 5 7-1/4 9 -
1311-1320 7 10-1/4 9 11
1321-1330 6 11-5/8 9 7
1331-1340 4 8-3/4 7 3
1341-1350 5 3-1/8 6 10
1351-1360 6 10-5/8 6 7
1361-1370 7 3-1/4 9 3
1371-1380 6 1-1/4 10 11
1381-1390 5 2 8 -
1391-1400 5 3 8 4
1401-1410 5 8-1/4 9 2-1/2
1411-1420 5 6-3/4 7 8-1/4
1421-1430 5 4-3/4 7 5-1/2
1431-1440 6 11 5 9
1441-1450 5 5-3/4 4 10-1/2
1451-1460 5 6-1/2 4 3-3/4
1461-1470 5 4-1/2 4 11-1/2
1471-1480 5 4-1/4 5 4
1481-1490 6 3-1/2 4 8-1/2
1491-1500 5 0-3/4 6 0-1/2
1501-1510 5 5-1/2 4 5-3/4
1511-1520 6 8-3/4 6 7-1/4
1521-1530 7 6 5 4-1/4
1531-1540 7 8-1/2 6 8-3/4
1541-1550 10 8 20 8
1551-1560 15 3-3/4 15 8
1561-1570 12 10-1/4 16 -
1571-1582 16 8 17 -

TABLE II

PRICES OF WHEAT AND WOOL. LONG PERIOD AVERAGES

Wheat, per Wool, per
Date quarter