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In the Appendix to the life of Prince Henry, Doctor Birch has

given us an account of the prices of butcher's meat as commonly

paid by that prince. It is there said, that the four quarters of

an ox, weighing six hundred pounds, usually cost him nine pounds

ten shillings, or thereabouts; that is thirty-one shillings and

eight-pence per hundred pounds weight. Prince Henry died on the

6th of November 1612, in the nineteenth year of his age.