Principles of Political Economy Considered With a View to Their Practical Applic
Principles of Political Economy Considered With a View to Their Practical Applic
T R Thomas Robert Malthus
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2d. , which is 2*. Qid. The bushel, and 8id. The peck. At this price, a day's labour would purchase a peck of corn, within a farthing, or xf of a peck. This is a diminution of nearly ahalf in thecorn wages of labour ; but at the end of the century, the diminu- tion was still greater. The next notice of the price of labour, with the ex- ception of the regulations of the justices in some of the ; more northern counties, which can hardly be taken as a fair criterion for the south, is in 1601, when... it is mentioned as 10^/. Taking an average from the Wind- sor table of five years, which includes, however, one , 1 * State of the Poor, vol. Iii. P. Ixxxix. I t Ibid. Vol. Iii. P. Ix. R 242 OF TIIK \VMrEi> OV I. AliOLU. [CH. I\ . excessively dear year, and subtracting ^ to reduce it to \\'inchester measure, it appears that the price of the quarter was 2/. 26'. 0^/. Which is 5. Y. 3^/. The bushel, and 1*. 3icl. , the peck. A day's labour would at this price purchase less than 3 of a peck. * This is unquestionably a prodigious fall in the corn wages of labour.
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