more so in
different seasons of the year.

[722] I insert the following comparative table of English money from Sir
Frederick Eden. The unit, or present value, refers of course to that of
the shilling before the last coinage, which reduced it.

------------------+----------------+-------------
| Value of |
| pound |
| sterling, |
| present money. | Proportion.
+----------------+-------------
| L. s. d. |
Conquest, 1066 | 2 18 1-1/2 | 2.906
28 E. I. 1300 | 2 17 5 | 2.871
18 E. III. 1344 | 2 12 5-1/4 | 2.622
20 E. III. 1346 | 2 11 8 | 2.583
27 E. III. 1353 | 2 6 6 | 2.325
13 H. IV. 1412 | 1 18 9 | 1.937
4 E. IV. 1464 | 1 11 0 | 1.55
18 H. VIII. 1527 | 1 7 6-3/4 | 1.378
34 H. VIII. 1543 | 1 3 3-1/4 | 1.163
36 H. VIII. 1545 | 0 13 11-1/2 | 0.698
37 H. VIII. 1546 | 0 9 3-3/4 | 0.466
5 E. VI. 1551 | 0 4 7-3/4 | 0.232
6 E. VI. 1552 | 1 0 6-3/4 | 1.028
1 Mary 1553 | 1 0 5-3/4 | 1.024
2 Eliz. 1560 | 1 0 8 | 1.033
43 Eliz. 1601 | 1 0 0 | 1.000
------------------+----------------+-------------

[723] Macpherson's Annals, p. 424, from Matt. Paris.

[724] Difference of Limited and Absolute Monarchy, p. 133.

[725] Hist. of Hawsted, p. 141.

[726] Nicholls's Illustrations, p. 2. One fact of this class did, I own,
stagger me. The great earl of Warwick writes to a private gentleman, Sir
Thomas Tudenham, begging the loan of ten or twenty pounds to make up a
sum he had to pay. Paston Letters, vol. i. p. 84. What way shall we make
this commensurate to the present value of money? But an ingenious friend
suggested, what I do not question is the case, that this was one of many
letters addressed to the adherents of Warwick, in order to raise by
their contributions a considerable sum. It is curious, in this light, as
an illustration of manners.

[727] Paston Letters, vol. i. p. 224; Cullum's Hawsted, p. 182.

[728] Hist. of Hawsted, p. 228.

[729] Mr Malthus observes on this that I "have overlooked the
distinction between the reigns of Edw. III. and Henry VIII. (perhaps a
misprint for VI.), with regard to the state of the labouring classes.
The two periods appear to have