Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 7: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament, 1259, to the Commencement of the Continental War, 1793, Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records, Part I, 1708-1793AS it has been decided to bring the Histom (y Agriculture and Prices to an end with the seventh volume, which is now laid before the public, some apology for the incomplete condition of the work is necessary, as well as an explanation of the great delay which has occurred in printing these pages. The fifth and sixth volumes were published in 1887, and during the last three years of his life my father was busily en gaged in collecting material for the concluding part of his book. A large number of figures had been brought together, and even tabulated, when he was seized with the illness that ultimately proved fatal to him. But the series was incomplete, and though prices had been collected for several articles for every year in the period he had set himself to deal with, many subjects were but poorly represented. Among the papers that were left, no clue was found to the existence of any other figures, or to the sources from which he had proposed to draw further information. My father invariably worked alone, with out assistance or delegation, and there was no one therefore who was in a position to offer any valuable opinion on the intended scope of the work. When therefore the Delegates of the University Press kindly agreed to allow me to edit the manuscript my father left behind him, two courses were open to me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.