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The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
d were common enough in many European cities. They are among the many crying evils that have descended to the present generation from mediæval times, and which the present generation is extirpating as fast as it can. That we speak nothing more or less than the truth, let the following extract from McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary--a work justly held in high esteem by statesmen as well as merchants — testify. It is to be found under the article "Bread:" "Assize of Bread.--From the year 1266, in the reign of Henry III., down to our own days, it has been customary to regulate the price at which bread should be sold according to the price of wheat or flour at the time. An interference of this sort was supposed to be necessary to prevent that monopoly on the part of the bakers which it was feared might otherwise take place.--But it is needless, perhaps, to say that this apprehension was of the most futile description. The trade of a baker is one that may be easily learned, and it