It's probably worth a look, but for questions like "how much is some" I think you really need to be looking at the level of the pantry, not the city corporation ... the problem is, of course, that the majority of historians do not work at that level, and the ones that do tend to provide summaries.

Anton


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:43:29 -0600
 "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD@Health.State.OK.US> wrote:
> Here's a book which was just brought to my attention, which may be of value
> in this area.
>
> Bear
>
> A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company and the Politics and
> Trade of London, 1000-1485. By Pamela Nightingale. (New Haven and London:
> Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 640. $65.00.)