Note 164-5 — Chapter III
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
The labor of digging during the time of scarcity in England was paid one-third of the price usually paid in good years. (Porter, Progress of the Nation, III, 14, 454.) On the Slavic[TN 9] portions of Silesia, see Hildebrand's Jahrb., 1872, I, 292. According to Rogers, I, 227 ff., 315 ff., and the table of prices in the appendix to Eden, State of the Poor, the price in England of a quarter of wheat and a day's wages was, in—