Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
Easter a freemason and a master carpenter by the day 3d. with meat and
drink, and without meat and drink 4-1/2d.; tiler, mean carpenter, rough
mason and other artificers aforesaid, by the day 2-1/2d. with meat and
drink, and without meat and drink 4d.; and every other workman and
labourer by the day 1-1/2d. with meat and drink, and without meat and
drink 3d.; and who that less deserves, to take less; provided that the
said assessing extend not to labourers in time of harvest about harvest
labour, in which the wages of a mower exceed not by the day 4d. with
meat and drink, and without meat and drink 6d.; a man reaper or carter
3d. by the day with meat and drink, and without meat and drink 5d.; a
woman labourer and other labourers in harvest by the day 2-1/2d. with
meat and drink, and without meat and drink 4-1/2d.; and such as are
worth less, less to take, and in places where less is used to be taken,
less be taken hereafter; and that no artificer, workman or labourer take
anything for any holiday nor for no workday, except after the rate of
the time of the day in which he labours; and if any person refuse to
serve or labour according to the premises, that every justice of the
peace in their shires have power at every time to call them to
examination thereof, and such as they find defective to commit to
prison, there to abide till they have found surety sufficient to serve
and labour in form by law required; and if any servant, artificer,
workman or labourer, do contrary to the premises or deny his service,
occupation or labour, by reason of no giving wages or salaries contrary
to this statute, that he lose to the party that will sue in this part
20s.; and that the givers of excessive salaries or wages run in the same
pain ...
Further, that the justices of peace assess no fine upon any that shall
be convict before them of things done against any Statute of Labourers
or Artificers or by that cause shall put him in the King's grace,
beneath 3s. 4d. ...[222]
[Footnote 221: _i.e._ Unless.]
[Footnote 222: This bill became a Statute (_Stat._ 23 _Henry VI. c._
12).]
20. ORGANISATION OF THE STAPLE[223] [_Patent Roll_,6 _Edward II, p._ 2,
_m._ 5], 1313.
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