So a year's rent for a shop in mid London was twice the price of a cow or a pile of silver worth £240 today. edit: or half a year's wage for a laborer, equival

So a year's rent for a shop in mid London was twice the price of a cow or a pile of silver worth £240 today. edit: or half a year's wage for a laborer, equivalent to aprox £9,000 today. Those ratios seem to have changed: apparently the benefits of greater efficiency in mining, cattle raising etc. have not be evenly distributed.