A true & exact history of the island of BarbadosLigon, Richard
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A true & exact history of the island of Barbados
Ligon, Richard
Barbados -- Description and travel; Plants -- Barbados; Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Barbados
The Prime Overseer may very well deserve Fifty pounds Per Annum, or
the value in such Commodities as he likes, that are growing upon
the Plantation; for he is a man that the master may allow sometimes
to sit at his own Table, and therefore must be clad accordingly.
The other five of the Overseers, are to be accounted in the ranke
of Servants, whose freedome is not yet purchased, by their five
years service, according to the custome of the Iland. And for their
cloathing, they shall be allowed three shirts together, to every man
for shifts, which will very well last halfe a year, and then as many
more. And the like proportion for drawers, and for shooes, every
month a paire, that is twelve paire a year; six paire of stockings
yeerly, and three Monmouth Capps, and for Sundayes, a doublet of
Canvas, and a plaine band of Holland.
* * * * *
_An Account of Expences issuing out yearly for Cloathing, for the
Christian Servants, both Men and Women, with the Wages of the
principall Overseer, which shall be_ 50 l. _sterling, or the value in
such Goods as grow upon the Plantation_.
To the five subordinate Overseers, for each mans cloathing.
l. s. d.
Six shirts, at 4 s. a piece 1 04 0
Six pair of Drawers, at 2 s. 0 12 0
Twelve pair of shoes, at 3 s. 1 16 0
Six pair of Linnen or Irish stockings, }
at 20 d. } 0 10 0
Three _Monmouth_ Caps, at 4 s. 0 12 0
Two doublets of Canvas, and }
six Holland bands } 0 15 0
Sum totall for each man 5 9 0
Sum totall for the five Overseers 27 5 0
To the fourteen common servants.
l. s. d.
Six shirts to each man 1 04 0
Six pair of drawers to each man 0 12 0
Twelve pair of shoes, at 3 s. 1 16 0
Three _Monmouth_ caps, at 4 s. 0 12 0
Sum totall to each man 4 04 0
Sum totall, of the fourteen } 58 16 0
servants by the year }
Now for the ten women servants, we will dispose of them, thus: Four
to attend in the house, and those to be allowed, as followeth in the
first Columne, _viz._
The four that attend in the house to each of them
l. s. d.
Six smocks, at 4 s. a piece 1 04 0
Three petticoats, at 6 s. 0 18 0
Three wastcoats, at 3 s. 0 09 0
Six coifes or caps, at 18 d. a } 0 09 0
piece }
Twelve pair of shoes, at 3 s. 1 16 0
Sum is 4 16 0
Sum totall of the four women } 19 4 0
that attend in the house }
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