A table of Provisions with their prices as established by the king's proclamation in 1314, (vide Strype's edition of Stowe, book V folio 385; the like occured in 1274, I edward's time, and in 1572, Eliz. anno) but revoked in 1326:


Item £ s d   Item £ s d
Best grass-fed ox alive 0 16 0   Best capon at   - - 2 1/2
Best grain-fed ox 1 4 0   Best hen at   - - 1 1/2
Best cow alive and fat at   - 12 0   Best chickett, two for - - 1 1/2
Best hogg of 2 yrs old at   - 3 4   Best young pidgeons, 3 for - - 1
Best shorn mutton at - 1 2   Twenty eggs for - - 1
Best goose at - - 3

Taken from Portfolio of fragments relative to the hist. and antiquities of the county Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, Matthew Gregson esq., 1817

[Wigan Library local history reserve collection]