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The last words of the statute are "reliqua judicabis secundum

praescripta, habendo respectum ad pretium bladi."-"You shall

judge of the remaining cases, according to what is above written,

having respect to the price of corn."

Thirdly, they seem to have been misled too, by the very low price

at which wheat was sometimes sold in very ancient times; and to

have imagined, that as its lowest price was then much lower than

in later times its ordinary price must likewise have been much

lower. They might have found, however, that in those ancient

times its highest price was fully as much above, as its lowest

price was below any thing that had ever been known in later

times. Thus, in 1270, Fleetwood gives us two prices of the

quarter of wheat. The one is four pounds sixteen shillings of the

money of those times, equal to fourteen pounds eight shillings of

that of the present; the other is six pounds eight shillings,

equal to nineteen pounds four shillings of our present money. No

price can be found in the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of

the sixteenth century, which approaches to the extravagance of

these.