168s

Updated: June 23, 2025

This would make the price 168s. a quarter; I find the average recorded for 1812 was 126s. 6d., so that it is quite possible that for a time in that year in places 168s. was realized; which leaves us little to grumble at in the price of 80s. during the greatest war in history.

Arthur H. Savory - Grain and Chaff from an English Manor