2.
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75.
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54.
Commerce and industry were certainly at a very low ebb during this period.

The bad police of the country alone affords a sufficient reason.
The only exports were wool, skins, hides leather, butter, tin, lead, and such unmanufactured goods, of which wool was by far the most considerable.

Knyghton has asserted, that one hundred thousand sacks of wool were annually exported, and sold at twenty pounds a sack, money of that age.