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Prices: Britain. Food Prices. Nottingham. 1796-1806.
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Commodity
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Price
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4 lb. Loaf of Bread
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1 s. 2 d.
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1 lb. Cheese
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8 d.
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1 lb. Butter
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1 s. 3 d.
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1 lb. Salt
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4 ½ d.
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1 lb. Beef
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9 d.
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1 lb. Mutton
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7 d.
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1 lb. Veal
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8 d.
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1 lb. Pork
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8 d.
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1 lb. Bacon
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1 s. 0 d.
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1 Fat Goose
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5 s. 6 d.
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2 Ducks
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5 s. 6 d.
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2 Chickens
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4 s. 6 d.
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1 lb. Soap
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10 d.
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1 lb. Candles
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10 d.
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1 Bushel Barley
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4 s. 4 d.
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1 Bushel Oats
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3 s. 1 ½ d.
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1 Bushel Malt
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8 s. 6 d.
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Source: Paul Mantoux. The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth
Century. N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1961
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