Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 144
thatin 1274, a Bible, in ninevolumes, fairly written, with a gloss, or comment, soldfor fifty marks, or $166. About this time the priceof wheat averaged 83c. a quarter, a laborers wageswere about three cents a day, a harvest-mans, fourcents. On a blank page of Comestors Scholastic His-tory,… … Early Printing Press. 116 Men Who Have Risen $333. It was directed, by the last will of his countess,to be sold for forty livres. At this time the kings sur-geons pay was $28 per annum, and one quarter a daybesides. Master carpenters had eight cents a day; theirservants four cents. . . . The…
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