La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII

La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII
Cost of living
1. Food and Drink
1d. A bun at the Chelsea bun House, London , 1711
Enough gin to get drunk, “dead drunk”, cost twopence.
1.25d. One pound of barley flour, 1737.
1.75d. One pound of wheat flour, 1786-8
3d.-3.5d. Quart of beer, (later 3.5d.)
3.5d. One pound of treacle (molasses) 1795-6
4d. one pound of butcher’s meat, such as veal, pork, beef, or lamb
Two mackerel in London
4.5d. One pond of wheat flour, 1795
6d. One pound of tobacco
7d. One pound of sugar, 1795-6
8d One pound of bacon 1795-6
9d. One pound of “Muscatel Raisins” in London, 1790
10d. One pound of butter, 1780s 1790s
1s. A “Cream Cheese” in York, 1782
Price set by an Oxford mob on one pound of butter, Sept.1800
1s. 6d. Price of a chicken in London, 1755
2s.3d. Price of a chicken in London, 1785
2s.4d. Six pounds of cheese at a Didsbury grocer’s, 1787
2s.6d. One pound of “fine French fruit” in London 1790.
4s. Approximate price of one pound of low quality tea, late 1780’s and early
1790s
4s. 6d. One pound of brand-name cocoa, 1786-7
12s. Approximate price of one pound of high-quality tea, early 1790s
15s. Average monthly grocer’s bill of Didsbury laborer, “Ould William
Chase”, 1780’s
£59.13s. 1795 food expenditure for household of Rev. Laurie of Newburn,
Fifeshire
£65 Load shipped from a London grocer to Scotland’s Sir Robert Menzies,
including 66 lbs. of tea, 400 lbs. of sugar, 14 loaves, 100 lbs. of hops,
dried fruits, nuts, spices, and rice. 1
1 ALTICK, Shows of London, .p.19, LANGFORD, A Polite and Commercial People, pp. 346, 448,
THOMPSON, Customs in Common, pp. 250-1, MUI AND MUI, Shops and Shopkeeping, pp. 154-5, 157, 202,
212-3, 215,233, 245-6, 265, 269; PORTER, London, 183.