English Economic History: Select Documents

Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions

From Simon Meller for his excess                          40d.
  From Robert Throstle for the same                          6d.
  From Thomas Poggill for the same                          12d.
  From Roger Bollok for the same                            12d.
  From Geoffrey Edmund for the same                          6d.
  From Richard Tailliour for the same                        2s.
  From Alice Smyth for the same                              6d.
  From John Smart for the same                              12d.
  From Margaret Everard for the same                        12d.
  From Alice Gerlond for the same                           12d.
  From Alice Weper for the same                              6d.
  From Agnes Heyward for the same                           12d.
  From John Crawe for the same                               6d.
  From Christina Bostis for the same                         6d.
  From Richard Cook for the same                            12d.
  From Edmund atte Well for the same                         6d.
  From Walter Bilet for the same                             6d.
  From Geoffrey Sloman for the same                          6d.

                                    Sum,               16s. 10d. Proved


16. WRIT TO ENFORCE PAYMENT OF EXCESS OF WAGES TO THE COLLECTORS OF A
SUBSIDY [_Close Roll, 24 Edward III, p. l, m. 6d._], 1350.

The King to his beloved and trusty Walter de Mauny and his fellows, our
justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and certain
other things contained in our commission made to you, in the county of
Northampton, greeting. Whereas lately it was ordained by us and our
council that servants, as well men as women, should be bound to serve
and should receive only the salaries and wages which used to be offered
in the places where they ought to serve in the twentieth year of our
reign over England or the five or six common years next preceding, and
that all and singular such servants, workmen and artificers ... taking
more ... be assessed at the whole additional sum which they shall
receive ... and the whole additional sum so received be levied and
collected from every of them to our use in relief of the singular towns
to which the said artificers, servants and workmen belong, and in aid of
payment of the sums at which the same towns or the men thereof are
assessed for the tenth and fifteenth now current ...: you, nevertheless,
... attempt to cause such excesses of wages, liveries, hires and
salaries ... with the fines made before you ... to be enrolled on your
rolls and levied to our use, against the intent of that agreement, as by
complaint of the people it has been given us to understand: We ...
command you to compel all and singular artificers, servants and workmen,
as well men as women, of whatsoever condition they be, convicted or
hereafter to be convicted before you of such excessive salaries,
liveries, hires or stipends whatsoever received by them in the aforesaid

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English Economic History: Select Documents

Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions

From Simon Meller for his excess                          40d.
  From Robert Throstle for the same                          6d.
  From Thomas Poggill for the same                          12d.
  From Roger Bollok for the same                            12d.
  From Geoffrey Edmund for the same                          6d.
  From Richard Tailliour for the same                        2s.
  From Alice Smyth for the same                              6d.
  From John Smart for the same                              12d.
  From Margaret Everard for the same                        12d.
  From Alice Gerlond for the same                           12d.
  From Alice Weper for the same                              6d.
  From Agnes Heyward for the same                           12d.
  From John Crawe for the same                               6d.
  From Christina Bostis for the same                         6d.
  From Richard Cook for the same                            12d.
  From Edmund atte Well for the same                         6d.
  From Walter Bilet for the same                             6d.
  From Geoffrey Sloman for the same                          6d.

                                    Sum,               16s. 10d. Proved


16. WRIT TO ENFORCE PAYMENT OF EXCESS OF WAGES TO THE COLLECTORS OF A
SUBSIDY [_Close Roll, 24 Edward III, p. l, m. 6d._], 1350.

The King to his beloved and trusty Walter de Mauny and his fellows, our
justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and certain
other things contained in our commission made to you, in the county of
Northampton, greeting. Whereas lately it was ordained by us and our
council that servants, as well men as women, should be bound to serve
and should receive only the salaries and wages which used to be offered
in the places where they ought to serve in the twentieth year of our
reign over England or the five or six common years next preceding, and
that all and singular such servants, workmen and artificers ... taking
more ... be assessed at the whole additional sum which they shall
receive ... and the whole additional sum so received be levied and
collected from every of them to our use in relief of the singular towns
to which the said artificers, servants and workmen belong, and in aid of
payment of the sums at which the same towns or the men thereof are
assessed for the tenth and fifteenth now current ...: you, nevertheless,
... attempt to cause such excesses of wages, liveries, hires and
salaries ... with the fines made before you ... to be enrolled on your
rolls and levied to our use, against the intent of that agreement, as by
complaint of the people it has been given us to understand: We ...
command you to compel all and singular artificers, servants and workmen,
as well men as women, of whatsoever condition they be, convicted or
hereafter to be convicted before you of such excessive salaries,
liveries, hires or stipends whatsoever received by them in the aforesaid

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

English Economic History: Select Documents

English Economic History: Select Documents

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