Note 405b — HISTORY OF LYNN. PART III. (continued 2)

See Parkin, as before; who further observes, that Lynn was famous at that time for importing wine: and it seems that foreign wine was then very cheap here, compared with what it is at present. Hence Parkin mentions a pipe of wine as selling here then at 1l. 15s. and a tun of wine at 50s. These were probably red wine, for he afterwards mentions a tun of white wine as having been sold for three marks and a half, i.e. 2l. 6s. 3d.—The mark being 13s. 4d.—Wine sells here now at a price above 50 times higher than what it did at that period. Salmon was an article that appears to have always fetched a high price in those days; and Parkin, in the place from which these articles have been extracted, mentions 20s. as paid for 5 Salmons sent to the bishop of Norwich at South Elmham, on Monday before the feast of the purification. Ten such Salmons were then, it seems, as valuable as a pipe of wine.