WHAT THINGS COST IN THOSE DAYS.
In 1236 a hen was bought in Paris for a penny. A bed in a Greek inn a.d. 327 cost two pence. In Borne b.c. 6, roses were a halfpenny a dozen. Popposa, Nero's wife, paid twopence a quart for asses' milk to bathe in. In 1542 Italian oranges were sold in Eome for tenpence a thousand.
In the year 1400 English horses suitable for cavalry, cost £2 apiece.
In 1376 eggs sold in Barcelona for one shilling and sixpence a hundred.
Essex, the favourite of Elizabeth, had a set of shirts which cost £2 apieoe. Pigs' feet sold in Borne in the fourth century at the rate of twenty for twopence. Bread in Pompeii cost three- half pence a loaf. The loaf weighed about six ounces.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4256, 10 July 1895, Page 4
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133WHAT THINGS COST IN THOSE DAYS. Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4256, 10 July 1895, Page 4
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