As For Bread-Corn, It Is For The Most Part Brought To London After
It Is Converted Into Flour, And Both Bread And Flour Are Extremely
Reasonable:
We here buy as much good white bread for three-
halfpence or twopence, as will serve an Englishman a whole day, and
flour in proportion.
Good strong beer also may be had of the
brewer, for about twopence a quart, and of the alehouses that retail
it for threepence a quart. Bear Quay, below bridge, is a great
market for malt, wheat, and horse-corn; and Queenhithe, above the
bridge, for malt, wheat, flour, and other grain.
The butchers here compute that there are about one thousand oxen
sold in Smithfield Market one week with another the year round;
besides many thousand sheep, hogs, calves, pigs, and lambs, in this
and other parts of the town; and a great variety of venison, game,
and poultry. Fruit, roots, herbs, and other garden stuff are very
cheap and good.
Fish also are plentiful, such as fresh cod, plaice, flounders,
soles, whitings, smelts, sturgeon, oysters, lobsters, crabs,
shrimps, mackerel, and herrings in the season; but it must be
confessed that salmon, turbot, and some other sea-fish are dear, as
well as fresh-water fish.
Wine is imported from foreign countries, and is dear. The port wine
which is usually drunk, and is the cheapest, is two shillings a
quart, retailed in taverns, and not much less than eighteen or
twenty pounds the hogshead, when purchased at the best hand; and as
to French wines, the duties are so high upon them that they are
double the price of the other at least.
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