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From 1637 to 1700, both inclusive, being the sixty-four last

years of the last century the average price of the quarter of

nine bushels of the best wheat, at Windsor market, appears, from

the same accounts, to have been £ 2:11:0 ⅓, which is only 1s. 0

⅓d. dearer than it had been during the sixteen years before. But,

in the course of these sixty-four years, there happened two

events, which must have produced a much greater scarcity of corn

than what the course of the seasons would otherwise have

occasioned, and which, therefore, without supposing any further

reduction in the value of silver, will much more than account for

this very small enhancement of price.