SC - > So long as we are making assumptions . . . . . . .

[Jenne Heise]

> > Nope. In fact, to add something to your argument: grains of paradise were
> > supposedly 4 pence a pound. However, I'm still puzzled by whether they
> > could have been cheap before the time of Henry the navigator and the
> > opening of the sea route fromWest Africa.
> > 
> And in the quantities normally bought by individuals which are considerably 
> less than a pound, they would have been well within the reach of most folks 
> except the poorest of the poor. Your point?

That we have evidence from Britain that sugests Nicollo's comments about
grains of paradise being a spice probably used by the 'peasants' can also
be extrapolated, at least as a tentative hypothesis, to Britain.

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