the coinage was lowered to about its present weight. In 1675, therefore,
we see the laborer getting 7-1/2 pence for a day's service. But he was
compelled to pay 4 shillings 6 pence for a bushel of wheat, and £3 6
shillings for an ox. He thus was going backward, for temporary reasons,
however, and had to pay seven days' (98 hours') labor for his bushel of
wheat and 110 days' (1540 hours') labor for his ox. The ox had twice as
much beef on him as the ox of 1350.