Price of sheep in 1625 ?

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JohnR

Price of sheep in 1625 ?

Legg inn av JohnR » 27 feb 2006 19:31:58

Anyone know the price of sheep in 1625? An ancestor left an estate,
which included £ 250 for sheep and lambs, this strikes me as being
rather a lot of sheep for a Wiltshire farm. Mutton appears to have been
about 1/- a quarter about then.

Renia

Re: Price of sheep in 1625 ?

Legg inn av Renia » 28 feb 2006 00:10:02

JohnR wrote:
Anyone know the price of sheep in 1625? An ancestor left an estate,
which included £ 250 for sheep and lambs, this strikes me as being
rather a lot of sheep for a Wiltshire farm. Mutton appears to have been
about 1/- a quarter about then.

I don't know about inflation, but in 1584 my ancestor's 6 ewes were
apprised at £9 (9 pounds). These must have been very special ewes,
because he had a further 43 ewes and one tup apprised at £8.16 (8 pounds
16 shillings).

Clive West

Re: Price of sheep in 1625 ?

Legg inn av Clive West » 28 feb 2006 00:34:03

The probate inventory of one of my Leicestershire ancestors who died in 1557
values his seven "shyppe yong and olde" at £1 or about 3/- each. The
inventory of his great great great grandson who died in 1749 includes forty
sheep valued at £12 or 6/- each. So possibly the price per sheep in 1625 was
around 4/- or 5/-.

CNW

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Anyone know the price of sheep in 1625? An ancestor left an estate,
which included £ 250 for sheep and lambs, this strikes me as being
rather a lot of sheep for a Wiltshire farm. Mutton appears to have been
about 1/- a quarter about then.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: Price of sheep in 1625 ?

Legg inn av Tim Powys-Lybbe » 28 feb 2006 01:20:31

In message of 27 Feb, "JohnR" <cjrees@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone know the price of sheep in 1625? An ancestor left an estate,
which included £ 250 for sheep and lambs, this strikes me as being
rather a lot of sheep for a Wiltshire farm.

There's an awful lot of hills with chalky soil on them and little or no
water nearby which were no use for cultivation in those times. I know a
farmer whose flock gets up to 2,000 sheep after lambing on 3 or 400
acres in Wiltshire. The last count I heard of sheep in England was 40
million so I can easily imagine some large flocks in late medieval
times.

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Gordon Banks

Re: Price of sheep in 1625 ?

Legg inn av Gordon Banks » 28 feb 2006 18:55:02

I think it was for the wool (and breeding) that they were prized, not
for the mutton.

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 01:16 +0200, Renia wrote:
JohnR wrote:
Anyone know the price of sheep in 1625? An ancestor left an estate,
which included £ 250 for sheep and lambs, this strikes me as being
rather a lot of sheep for a Wiltshire farm. Mutton appears to have been
about 1/- a quarter about then.

I don't know about inflation, but in 1584 my ancestor's 6 ewes were
apprised at £9 (9 pounds). These must have been very special ewes,
because he had a further 43 ewes and one tup apprised at £8.16 (8 pounds
16 shillings).

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