Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
A chief woman servant shall not take by the year of wages above xxxs.
and a livery or vs. for the same.
Every other woman servant above xvi years of age shall not take by the
year of wages above xxs. and a livery or vs. for the same.
_Wages by the day for labourers in harvest and at all other times of the
year in husbandry._
Mowers of grain by the day with meat and drink shall not take of wages
above vd. and without meat and drink not above xd.
Men labourers in haymaking or gripping of lent corn shall not take by
the day with meat and drink of wages above iiiid. and without meat and
drink not above viiid.
Women labourers in haymaking or gripping of lent corn shall not take by
the day with meat and drink of wages above iiid. and without not above
vid.
Mowers of corn shall not take by the day with meat and drink of wages
above vd., and without meat and drink not above xd.
Men reapers of wheat and rye shall not take by the day with meat and
drink of wages not above vd., and without meat and drink not above xd.
Women reapers of wheat and rye shall not take by the day with meat and
drink not above iiiid. and without meat and drink not above ixd.
Every hedger, ditcher, thresher and other like labourer in husbandry not
afore named shall not take by the day from Michaelmas to the
Annunciation of our Lady of wages with meat and drink not above iiid.,
and without meat and drink not above viid., and that at the election of
the hirer; and from the Annunciation of our Lady unto Michaelmas of
wages by the day with meat and drink not above iiiid., and without meat
and drink not above viiid., and that at the election of the hirer.
_Wages for Taskwork without Meat and Drink._
For reaping and binding of wheat, rye, or beans, for every acre by the
lug not above xxd.
Mowing of barley for every acre by lug not above vd.
Mowing of oats for every acre by lug not above iiiid.
Hacking or hawming of pease or fatches for every acre by lug not above
xiid.
Mowing of grass for every acre by lug not above xd.
Making of hay for every acre by lug not above ixd.
Threshing of wheat, rye, pease, beans, or fatches, for every quarter,
not above xd.
Threshing of barley or oats for every quarter not above vid.
Ditching, planting, and hedging of a perch containing sixteen foot and a
half in length, three foot in depth, and five foot in breadth in gravel
or stony ground, and setting the same with two chests of plants and
making hedge for every perch, not above vid.
Ditching, planting, and hedging after the same order in other sandy or
easy grounds, by the lug of like awise not above vd.
Making of hedge for every perch not above 1d.
Making of plaisted hedge and other fenced hedge more strong and scouring
of the ditch, for every perch not above iid.
Paling and railing with one rail, felling and clearing of timber and
digging of the holes for the posts, for every perch not above xd.
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