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In the parliamentary inquiry in 1764, the witnesses stated the

price of the choice pieces of the best beef to be to the consumer

4d. and 4½d. the pound; and the coarse pieces in general to be

from seven farthings to 2½d. and 2¾d.; and this, they said, was

in general one halfpenny dearer than the same sort of pieces had

usually been sold in the month of March. But even this high price

is still a good deal cheaper than what we can well suppose the

ordinary retail price to have been in the time of Prince Henry.

During the first twelve years of the last century, the average

price of the best wheat at the Windsor market was £ 1:18:3½d. the

quarter of nine Winchester bushels.

But in the twelve years preceding 1764 including that year, the

average price of the same measure of the best wheat at the same

market was £ 2:1:9½d.