List of price of medieval items (2006)
The article provides a detailed list of prices for various medieval items, including marriage dowries, funeral costs, travel expenses, and miscellaneous goods. It highlights the significant variation in costs depending on social status and circumstances. Additionally, it outlines wages for different professions during the medieval period.
- ▪Peasant dowries ranged from 13s 4d to £1000 for a baron's daughter.
- ▪Funeral costs varied significantly, with a cheap gentlewoman's funeral costing £7 and a memorial chapel for an earl costing £2481.
- ▪Travel expenses included a queen's chariot priced at £400 and a ferry ride per horseman costing 1d.
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MARRIAGE Item Price Date Source Page Sample peasant dowries: 13s 4d, 14 cen(?) [3] 179 35s 11d, 57s, 63s 4d For serfs, mechet (fees) to lord, depending on wealth 1s-13s 4d 14 cen(?) [3] 179 Wedding feast, wealthy peasant 20s " " " Wealthy peasant wedding total £3-£4 " " " Dowry for esquire's daughter up to £66 15 cen " 84 13s 4d Dowry for baron's daughter £1000 + " " " London parents (both sets) each offered couple £100 1385 [2] 154 Note: these costs will be wildly varying depending on circumstance.
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