At 09:26 10/05/04 +0100, you wrote:
>Can anyone tell me the price of lead in 1552.
Andy,
Much will depend on where the lead was sold - at the smelter, at a port or
fair like Boston, or delivered on site. I don't have price to hand for 1552
but two quoted by Lewis, Lead Mining in Wales, for 1546 at £4 5s per fodder
of 2200.5lbs (source NLW Ms 11148) and 1573 at £8 10s per fodder of
2200.5lbs (Tawney and Power, Tudor Econ. Doc., iii. 209) suggest a price
variation, perhaps influenced by transport costs, in line with the doubling
of English lead prices between the 1550s and 1560s as suggested by
Blanchard (International Lead Production and Trade, 1460-1550, p. 319).
Peter
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