this inftance, feems to have been unacquainted with the value of money, and the prices of fbeep, and other cattle, at the latter end of the reign of King Henry the Fourth. 66 For tho' Bishop Fleetwood, in his Chrenicum preciofum, p. 105, obferves, “That there are "few of the latin writers, that have tranfmitted any thing of their own knowledge (viz. concerning the prices of corn, cattle, and other things,] in the reigns of Henry IV, V, VI, “Edward IV, V, and Richard IH." Yet from his account of the preceding, and subsequent reigns, it may, (without any difficulty) be calculated, that ewes never fold at ten pounds a score, fome time before the conqueft, to Queen Elizabeth's reign. Before the conqueft in the year 1000 fheep were exceedingly cheap, as money was extremely scarce. In the time of King Ethelred, about the year 1000, if a fwine was loft, it was valued at eight-pence, a sheep at one fhilling, a goat at eleven-pence: (of the Saxon money, five-pence to the fhilling.) Chronicum preciofum, p. 65. 8vo, edit. In the time of Henry the Firft, about the year 1125, the allowance made to the King, inftead of provifions, w Pro ariete, vel ove, for a ram, or ewe fourpence. Chron. Pr. p. 69. 26 7 In 1298. [In the reign of King Edward I. ]at Scarborough in Yorkshire, an ox was fold, at fix fhillings and eight-pence, a cow at five fhillings, A a 2 fhillings, a beifer at two fhillings, a fheep at a penny. Chr. Pr. p. 82. In 1299, by an act of common council, by confent of the King, and nobility, "A fat lamb, from Christmas to Shrovetide, "was to be fold at one fhilling and four pence; "and from that time, the remaining part of "the year, at four pence." Chr. Pr. p. 83. "In the year 1302. "A bull was fold at "A cow at "A fat mutton at· "An ewe fheep at "In 1314. . ed. II. "A fat mutton unfhorn 1sh, 8P. Chr. Pre. P. 89. "In 1336, the 10th of Edward the Third, "a fat ox was fold at fix fhillings, and eightpence, a fat fheep at fix pence, or at moft ་ eight pence. Chr. Pr. p. 94. "In 1348. 22°. of Edward the Third, [a year "of peftilence] "A good fat ox was fold at four fhillings, "A lamb, at two pence, "A bogg at five pence. Chr. Pre. p. 95. "In 1423. of King Henry V. "A ram at eight-pence. Chr. Pr. p. 99. "In 1425. For twenty one lambs four fhil"lings. Chr. Pr. P. 100. In 1449.1. of Henry VI. Fifteen fheep, at one pound, fixteen fhillings and ten pence, each fheep two fhillings, and five pence. "In 1533. Chron. Pre. p. 109. of Henry VIII. Fat weathers were fold at three fhillings and four pence: a fat lamb for 12 pence. Chron. preciofum. p. 117.3 σε "In 1558. of Queen Mary of King Philip 4. "A good fheep, two fhillings and ten pence. As money decreased in the following reign, of Queen Elizabeth, I take it for granted, that the price of sheep, and all other provisions was increased. Sc. 5. p. 264. Falstaff of Shallow. Falft. He was fo forlorn, that his dimenfions to any thick fight, were almost invincible.] Qu. invifible? Id. ib. He was the very genius of famine, yet leacherous as a monkey, and the whores call'd him mandrake]" He was the very genius of famine. Folio 1632, the reft added. Id. ib. He talks as familiarly of John of Gaunt, as if he had been fworn brother to him, and I'll be fworn be never faw him but once, and then he broke his head, for crowding among the Marshal's men.] "Burft his head. Folio 1632, which fignified the fame thing in Shakespeare's days. [See Minfbieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 105, and is still used, I believe, in the Nor·thern parts of England. 358 Critical, Hiflorical, and Explanatory Id. ib. You might have trufs'd him and all bis apparel into an eel-fkin: the cafe of a trebble boboy, was a mansion for him, a court.] What was faid by an arch citizen to a very thin gentleman, of Justice Shallow's dimenfions, was as humorous, who asking him the way to the Navy Office? anfwer'd, Sir, you certainly mistake, you mean the Vitualing-Office. i Act 4. fc. 2. Pi 267, Earl of Westmoreland to the Archbishop of York. Weft. You, my Lord Archbishop, whofe white inveftitures figure innocency.] Alluding to the habit of a Bifhop at that time. Formerly (fays Dr. Hody, Hiftory of Con"vocations, p. 141,) all Bifhops wore white, and even when they travelled. This I learn "from an epiftle of Erafmus to Reuchlin, not to be found in the great volume of his epiftles, but among the epiftles of Reuchlin, fpeaking of Bishop Fiber of Rochester, that he had a mind to pafs over the fea, on purpose to fee, and converfe with Reuchlin. "Decreverat, fays he, pofito cultu epifcopali, "hoc eft, linea veste, quâ femper utuntur in An .. 66 glia, nifi cum venantur, trajicere, &c. He "bad determined to throw off his epifcopal babit, "that is, the linen garment which they always ufe in England, except when they bunt, and to pass over the fea, &c. And I find in the Decretals, an exprefs canon, requiring all Bifhops, whenever they appear in publick, or "at church, to wear a linen babit. Epifcopi in "publico, ****And confecrate commotions civil edge.] Wanting in folio 1632, and in Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition. Id. ib. p. 269. My brother General, the Commonwealth To brother born an boufehold cruelty.] The fecond line wanting in folio 1632, and in Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition. Sc. 6. p. 279. Prince John of Lancaster, to Falstaff. Lanc. Thefe tardy tricks of yours, will on my life, One time or other, break fome gallows back.] Mr. William Cartwright in his play, intitled, The Royal Slave, act 1. Sc. 1. has a thought not much unlike this. Archippus to Molops the Gaoler. As to thy felf, had not that weighty bulk of thine crack'd fo many gibbets, that the King began to fear his forefts, thou hadst neever been preferv'd to whistle plagues to us, as thou oufherft us to the bar. " A&t 4. fc. 1. p. 265. York. What is this foreft call'd? In the Peregrination of Dr. Boarde, Physician to King Henry the Eighth, publifh'd by Mr. Hearne, 'tis called Galtres Foreft. 'Tis mentioned by Camden to be in the north riding A a 4 of |