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The Generall Prices thisday of Octobr.
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1699 And for some time past of the severall fortes of
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English Corne and therein under menconed As They
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and sd old in the Marketts in and near the
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are as followeth Vizt.
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Verygood English undling wheat is Six & Forty
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shillings the Quarter}
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The life sort of English Rye is Twenty & Eight
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Barley the Better sent is Twenty & eight shillings
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Very good Peas for boyling is Six and Thirty
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The best sent of 6
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way peas and Beanes for Horses
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and House the Quarter to Thirty Shillings}
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Good clean Beance the Quarter is two & Thirty
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Good Carden Beanes is thirty six shillings the Quartr 1:16:=:
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English Forte of good and ling Cates is Sixteen
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Wee
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Thomas Baker
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of
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Cambarwell
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in the County of
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Yeoman
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John Bowden
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being pay one if qualified
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being p substants all housekeeper wth. in the County aforesd And not
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Court and her
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on Factors Merchants or persons
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According to the direccon of the late Act
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Parliament passed in the first peace of the reigue of the late King James
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the Second Intituled an Additionall Act for improvemt. of Tillage Doe
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certifie on our Respective Cathes According to the best of our knowledge
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and Informacon being conversant in the corne marketts in and near
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the
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that the abovesaid Prices is the Common Markett
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Price of the severall rates of English Grain of the respective Sorts as
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They are bought and Sold Witnesse our Hands the day abovewritten
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The said
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having a freehold effort of Twenty pounds P Ann And the said
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haveing a Least held estate of fifty pounds P Ann above all charges & reprizes And
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being skill full in the prices of Corne According
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