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For serfs, mechet (fees) to lord, depending on wealth

1s-13s 4d

Wedding feast, wealthy peasant 20s

Wealthy peasant wedding total L3-L4

Dowry for esquire's daughter up to L66

Dowry for baron's daughter L1000 +

Note: these costs will be wildly varying depending on circumstance.

FUNERALS

Item Price

Cheap gentlewoman's funeral

(bell-ringing, clergy, food) L7

Brass monument, with a figure

incised, on marble base--

fitting for lesser aristocrat L8

Bishop Mitford's funeral

(with 1450 guests!) L130+

Memorial Chapel for Richard

Beauchamp, earl of Warwick L2481

Bronze effigy on guilded tomb L400

TRAVEL

Item Price

Queen's chariot L400

Lady Eleanor's chariot L1000

Chariot L8

Chariot maintence 1-3s/year

Barge L10

Iron-bound cart 4s

Guide for a night 1d

Ferry ride per horseman 1d

MISCELLANEOUS

Item Price

6 silver spoons 14s

Gold Ring with ruby 26s 8d

3 strings of pearls 70s

6 gold necklaces 100s

Fee to enroll an apprentice:

with mercers (rich merchants) 2s

with carpenters 1s

Fee to join guild at end of

apprenticeship:

with mercers 20s

with carpenters 3s 4d

Fee to join guild 6s 8d-L3

Fee to gain freedom of a town

(to enjoy its exemption from

feudal duties, I assume) 3s 4d-20s

To empty a cesspit in a city 6s 8d

Candles

Somerset 1.5d/lb

London 2d-2.5d/lb

Candles

tallow 1.5d/lb

wax 6.5d/lb

Vat 4d

Barrel 3d

2 buckets 1s

1 sheet 4d

1 mattress 2d

4 pillows 4d

3 boards for a bed 4d

2 sheets, 4 blankets 5s 8p

16 bedspreads, 20 sheets,

8 featherbeds L3 1s

Duke's bed of cloth of gold,

with blue satin canopy L182 3s

Table 6d

Chair 3d

Chest with necessaries thereto 2s 2d

2 chests 6d each

Metal ewer 6d

Brass pot 2s

Basin and ewer 8d

Basin and ewer 2s 8d

Towel 6d

Coffer 1s

2 stools 8d

Ceramic cooking pot .5d

Note about lighting: great houses could use 100 lb of wax and tallow in a single winter night

WAGES

Profession Wage

Mercenaries:

knight banneret 4s/day

knight 2s/day

man-at-arms or squire 1s/day

Regular Army

Esquires, constables, and

centenars 1s/day

Mounted archers, armored

infantry, hobilars,

vintenars 6d/day

Welsh vintenars 4d/day

Archers 3d/day

Welsh infantry 2d/day

Captain 8s/day

Lieutenant 4s/day

Ensign 2s/day

Drummer or trumpeter 20d/day

cavalryman 18d/day

infantry 8d/day

Laborer L2/year max

Crown revenues (at peace) L30 000

Barons per year L200-500+

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