This much exceeds the great famine in the end of Queen Elizabeth, when a quarter of wheat was sold for four pounds.

Money in this last period was nearly of the same value as in our time.

These severe famines are a certain proof of bad husbandry.
[* M.Paris].
[** Fleetwood.p.83, 94, 96.

98] [*** Page 157.] On the whole, there are three things to be considered, wherever a sum of money is mentioned in ancient times.

First, the change of denomination, by which a pound has been reduced to the third part of its ancient weight in silver.