Note 363 — Chapter I · THE NEW RURAL ECONOMY

Camden Society (third series, vol. i.), Cely Papers. In 1480 the elder Cely writes: “I have not bought this year a loke of woll, for the woll of Cottyswolde is bought by the Lombardys” and in the following year, “Ye avyse me for to buye woll in Cottyswolde, bot it is at grate prise, 3s. 4d. a tod, and gret ryding for woll in Cottyswolde as was any yere this vii yere.”