Price of things in William III's reign?

[Peckris]

If you are really broke you could always visit baldrick from time team , down at the docks!

I do believe he likes a good dig.

Still looking for turnips

[copper123]

Back from all the sillyness (that I started!) sorry, and on to the original post.

The value of money in williams time and what it bought would not really equate very well to translating a wage back then to what a wage buys now.

Remember lots of clothes and everyday items , soap, food, water (clean in mean!)would have been luxury products and well beyond most peoples wages .

Weak beer was what most people used to stave off thirst a visit from a doctor would have been very expensive (and that is even if you don't mind leaches.)

Mass production and the chemical industry and science advances since this time have changed our values and the way we value money or goods on an unprecidented scale.

Remember the silks from china that would cost a king's ransom back then and even the craze for delft wear (these china pieces are probably worth little more than 300 years ago) even taking inflation into account, which is very important