The True Law of Population Shewn As Connected With the Food of the People
The True Law of Population Shewn As Connected With the Food of the People
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The gross and plentiful diet of the period above refered to, as compared with the present mode of living in England, by all ranks, is cer- tainly a curious subject for contemplation. Up to the end of Elizabeth's reign, tea and coffee seem to have been totally unknown even to the households of the Nobility, and sugar an article of great luxury. In the household book of Philip, the third Lord Wharton, of which the entries for one year are preserved in the Archaeologia JSliana, vol. ii., commencin...g OF POPULATION. 169 with October in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Elizabeth, neither tea nor coffee are ever mentioned. Sugar, in small quantities, at an enormous price, appears classed amongst the spicery, but so dear that a pound is set down as costing eighteen and nineteen-pence— about half the price of the carcass of a sheep, or mutton, as given in the same page, which are rated at three shillings and threepence per sheep, whether with or without the skin does not appear. In point of fact, animal food, with wine or beer, seems to have been the food of the whole people, and eaten at all meals and all times of day — saving on fast days, when fish was used.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The gross and plentiful diet of the period above refered to, as compared with the present mode of living in England, by all ranks, is cer- tainly a curious subject for contemplation. Up to the end of Elizabeth's reign, tea and coffee seem to have been totally unknown even to the households of the Nobility, and sugar an article of great luxury. In the household book of Philip, the third Lord Wharton, of which the entries for one year are preserved in the Archaeologia JSliana, vol. ii., commencin...g OF POPULATION. 169 with October in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Elizabeth, neither tea nor coffee are ever mentioned. Sugar, in small quantities, at an enormous price, appears classed amongst the spicery, but so dear that a pound is set down as costing eighteen and nineteen-pence— about half the price of the carcass of a sheep, or mutton, as given in the same page, which are rated at three shillings and threepence per sheep, whether with or without the skin does not appear. In point of fact, animal food, with wine or beer, seems to have been the food of the whole people, and eaten at all meals and all times of day — saving on fast days, when fish was used.
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