Elizabethan Money: Prices

Clothing
Arms
Lodging
Games
Furnishing
Misc
Food

Clothing

Needles	1 half-crown for larger dameskus
	1 crown for smaller dameskus
	1 farthing for wooden dameskus
Pins	1 shilling/dozen for dameskus
	Ť groat a measure (handful) of iron
Hook & Eyes	1 shilling/1000 (1590s) [Cunnington, p88]
Mandillion	15 or 16 shillings

'a sarcenett tippet worth 20s' (1559)
'for poynting ribbon to sett at ye knee 5d' (1581)
'For making a payer of blue venetian hosen 17d.
For half a yarde of fustian for the pockets 16d.
For 2 leather pockettes for his other hosen 6d'
'For two lambes skyns to make a paier of stockings 16d.
For silke to stitche the clockes 2d,
For clothe to sole them 2d' (1570)
'For a pair of linen botehose 3s. 4d' (1569)
'For fringe and lace for botehose of russet sylke and sylver...15s' (1576)
'For a quarter of an ounce of golde lace to laye on the toppes of those botehose 2s. 6d.'
'For a payer of shoes...with buckles 8d.' (1580)
'For a payer of calves leather pumpes 8d' (1569)
'For a payer of white leather pumpes 14d' (1569)
'3 pair of showes and pare of slippers 3s.' (1575)
'For a payer of bootes with 3 buckels a pece, 6s. 8d' (1568)
'...for knitting a payr of hosseis (stockings)...6d
...for dyeng and knytting a payr of hosen...5d
...spinning the wool 2d' (1554)
'A chamlet jacket guarded with velvet, 8s' (1569) [Cunnington, p14]
'Item pd by Mary for dyeng and knytting a payr of hosses for Christian 5d. Item the knytting a payr for Frances 5d. Item the spinning the woole 2d.' (1554) [Cunnington, p88]
'payd to the taylor for makyng of yoelet hooles in the jackets 4d' (1557) [Cunnington, p97]
'For a dozen of yealow silke poyntes for William Mekyns blue clothe jerkin 6d' (1576) [Cunnington, p97]
'a gown with a standing collar furd throughout with white lame(lamb) 16s' [Cunnington, p101]
'a nyghte gowne of blak satten furred with sables 41s' (1555) [Cunnington, p103]
'a cloke with a vellet (velvet) tippett 16 pounds' (1579) [Cunnington, p107]

The following is a tailor's bill of 1569 'for a blacke clothe cote' [Cunnington, p110]
For one yarde one quarter of blacke clothe for a cote at 16s the yarde.	2s
For bayes for to lyne the skyrtes	20s
For russet fustian for the upper bodye	14d
For sylke	18d
For 3 dozen of buttons	9d.
For canvas for the collar	4d.
To Busshell for the makyng	3s.

1586 hat prices: each

'littell narrow felts lyned with vellett for men' 4s. 6d.

'braide (broad) Spanish felts' 1s. 4d.

'graye felts eged and banded' 1s. 3d.

'cullered felts' 2s. 0d.

'coullered filt [sic] eaten with moths' 1s. 0d.

Arms & Armor

Bows	6 shillings, 8 pence for best foreign yew
	3 shillings, 4 pence for second quality
	2 shillings for English yew
Caliver	12 to 30 shillings
Musket	12 to 40 shillings
Pike/bill	2 to 3 shillings
Powder	7 pence/pound

Lodging

Feather bed	1 pence/night; 6 pence/week
Double feather bed	8 pence/week
Double flock bed	4 pence/week

Games & Recreation

Pack of cards

2 pence

Furnishings

Wooden bowls	1 pence
Wooden spoons	1/4 pence

Miscellaneous

Dung	Ob. a bushel

Food Prices

Fruits & Vegetables
Apples	3 per farthing
Onions	Ob. a bushel
Raisins	3d per pound
Meat
Beef	3d per pound (best beef)
Chickens	1d
Goose	4 pence
Herrings	3s per 200
Mutton	1 1/2 d per pound (best mutton)
Oysters	4d per bushel
Quail	1/2 d
Dairy
Butter	3/4 pence/ 3 ounces (1 pence/stick)
Cheese	Soft: tester per 1/2 length whell
Cheese	Hard: tester per 1/2 length whell
Cheese	1 pence/6 ounces
Curds and whey	3 farthings. 2 pence per 1/2 gallon
Eggs	6 per pence (2 pence/dozen)
Spices
Garlic	3 farthings a strand
Sugar	1s per pound
Cloves	11s per pound
Cinnamon	10s 6d per pound
Ginger	3s 8d per pound
Breads & Cereals
Biscuit	1 1/2 pence/pound
Bread	2d per loaf
Honey	2 groat per 1/2 gallon
Oatmeal	1 penny/pint (6 packets)
Alcohol
Ale	1/2 d per tankard
Wine	2s per bottle of French

References:

Pierce, Maggie, A Compendium of Common Knowledge
Chudnow, Alan, Taking the Queen's Shilling
Nelson, Walter, The Elizabethan's Hornbooke
St. Blaise, Blaisermanicks '91
Cunnington, C Willet & Phyllis, Handbook of English Costume in the Sixteenth Century

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