Note 17 — Part II.—Domesday Book.
Reading edition
Two lasts and two barrels. The value of salt herrings at this time was probably about 30s. a last, or £4 10s. of our present money. In 1295 fresh herrings sold at Yarmouth for 37s. a last. Swinden p. 922. Several salt works, (salinæ) are mentioned in Domesday at Caister and other places. The art of curing herrings by hanging and smoking them was apparently not practised until some two centuries after the conquest.