Table of wheat and malt prices at Oxford
Date
25 February 1685
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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p1
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Dimensions
height (page): 308mm
width (page): 201mm
width (page): 201mm
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Description
Table of prices of wheat and malt at Oxford between 1665 and 1684. This was compiled by Joshua Walker and read at the Oxford Philosophical Society on 17 February 1685, and sent on by William Musgrave to the Royal Society where it was read on 25 February 1685.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 25 February 1685, ‘A letter of Mr. Musgrave to Mr. Aston, dated at Oxford, Feb. 21, 1684/5, mentioning, that wheat for twenty years past had been sold at Oxford at a mean rate, 5 s. 4 d. ½ a bushel, and malt at 2 s. 11 d. ½ a bushel’ (Birch 4:370).
Related fellows
William Musgrave (1655 - 1721, British) , Physician
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