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Fiars; and the Quantity of Meal that could be purchafed by ihe Day-wages at the ſeveral Periods.

1BLE, ſhewing the Rate of Labourers Day-wages from the latter End of the laſt Century to the Year 1796, with the Average-prices of Meal by the Mid-Lothian

Td

Apeck of meal.

The Rate of Wages, Per Week.|Per

"4.

Per Day.

5d. 6

7 8 D

Annum-.-

1. Average Price of Meal from 1671 to 1695- 85. 10d. per Boll.

No. of. Bolls.| 1. s. 195 12 14X IO 173 16 20 TI 232 7 26 14

|

T

"The Rate of Wages.

Per Day.

Az

Rgoavwuan>? DO DODO IJO Ao

7 7 8 8 9

Per Week. Per

Annum.

Lz

0. 01.07071007020.05070

.|| No. of Bolls.

| Average Price of Mealfrom| 1758 to 1782.

T35. 5d. per Boll.

Average Price of Meal from 1696 to 1720. 105. per. Boll.

||NVo. of NASSER

I9% x5 I3 I0 155 17 18 Oo

4 15

Price of Meal in 1698, 225. per Boll.

No. of Bolls.| I.&.

197 DIED DO (323.40 „pau; 4(6 O1. NOL 10200 11 1910

d.

Price of Meal in 1706. 65. 84. per Boll.

No. of Bolls.| 1. s. I9+ I0 I97 IO 23% 16 27% 3 317 8 35 13

.||No. of Bolls.

Average Price of Meal from 1721 to 1745. 105. 5d. per Boll.

I9> 125 T5 TE 20 225

Price of Meal in 1740. 175. per Boll.

8 No. OF BAUS

2 16

|

.| No. of Bolls.

Average Price of Meal from 1739 to 1763. I15. 6d. per Boll.

Price of Meal in 1783. 215. per Boll.

No. of Bolls.| I. s. IO I1+ 125 I3Z I5 16 173 L8Zx 194 21 223

I97

OV A20 0000020

„m OI=->3 20.00

Ou

Qa

Average Price of Meal from 1770 to 1794.

I45. 6d. per Boll.

.||No. af Bolls.

Price of Meal in 1796. 233. per Boll.

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Price of Meal, at Boll.

No. of Bolls.|[.

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