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more so in different seasons of the year. [722] I insert the following comparative table of English money from Sir Frederick Eden. The unit, or present value, refers of course to that of the shilling before the last coinage, which reduced it. ------------------+----------------+------------- | Value of | | pound | | sterling, | | present money. | Proportion. +----------------+------------- | L. s. d. | Conquest, 1066 | 2 18 1-1/2 | 2.906 28 E. I. 1300 | 2 17 5 | 2.871 18 E. III. 1344 | 2 12 5-1/4 | 2.622 20 E. III. 1346 | 2 11 8 | 2.583 27 E. III. 1353 | 2 6 6 | 2.325 13 H. IV. 1412 | 1 18 9 | 1.937 4 E. IV. 1464 | 1 11 0 | 1.55 18 H. VIII. 1527 | 1 7 6-3/4 | 1.378 34 H. VIII. 1543 | 1 3 3-1/4 | 1.163 36 H. VIII. 1545 | 0 13 11-1/2 | 0.698 37 H. VIII. 1546 | 0 9 3-3/4 | 0.466 5 E. VI. 1551 | 0 4 7-3/4 | 0.232 6 E. VI. 1552 | 1 0 6-3/4 | 1.028 1 Mary 1553 | 1 0 5-3/4 | 1.024 2 Eliz. 1560 | 1 0 8 | 1.033 43 Eliz. 1601 | 1 0 0 | 1.000 ------------------+----------------+------------- [723] Macpherson's Annals, p. 424, from Matt. Paris. [724] Difference of Limited and Absolute Monarchy, p. 133. [725] Hist. of Hawsted, p. 141. [726] Nicholls's Illustrations, p. 2. One fact of this class did, I own, stagger me. The great earl of Warwick writes to a private gentleman, Sir Thomas Tudenham, begging the loan of ten or twenty pounds to make up a sum he had to pay. Paston Letters, vol. i. p. 84. What way shall we make this commensurate to the present value of money? But an ingenious friend suggested, what I do not question is the case, that this was one of many letters addressed to the adherents of Warwick, in order to raise by their contributions a considerable sum. It is curious, in this light, as an illustration of manners. [727] Paston Letters, vol. i. p. 224; Cullum's Hawsted, p. 182. [728] Hist. of Hawsted, p. 228. [729] Mr Malthus observes on this that I "have overlooked the distinction between the reigns of Edw. III. and Henry VIII. (perhaps a misprint for VI.), with regard to the state of the labouring classes. The two periods appear to have
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