Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
Every master tucker, following his labour duly and painfully, shall take
of wages by the week not above [_blank_], and every ordinary workman of
the same trade, following his labour as aforesaid, shall take of wages
by the week not above [_blank_]. Every woman spinner's wage shall be
such as, following her labour duly and painfully, she may make it
account to [_blank_] the day.
James Mervin.
Wm. Eyre.
Edw. Penruddock.
Jasper More.
John Dauntsey.
Alexander Tutt.
Jo. Ernlle.
James Ley.
Henry Martyn.
[Footnote 289: A mistake for fifth (see No. 6).]
13. ASSESSMENT MADE BY THE JUSTICES OF WILTSHIRE, DEALING MAINLY WITH
TEXTILE WORKERS [_Hist. MSS. Com., Vol. I, pp. 167-168, The Records of
Quarter Sessions in the County of Wilts_], 1605.
_Wiltshire._--The declaration of the general rates of wages of servants,
labourers, artificers, handycraftsmen, weavers, spinsters, workmen and
workwomen within the foresaid county assessed and rated by the Justices
of the Peace of the foresaid county, whose hands and seals are hereunder
to these presents set, at the General Sessions of the Peace of the said
county holden at the Devizes in the said county the ninth day of April
in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord James by the grace of
God, etc...., according to the Statutes in that case made and provided.
_Imprimis_, that the rates of the wages of servants, labourers,
artificers, and handicraftsmen within the said county shall continue and
be for this year now next ensuing in all respects as they were rated and
assessed the last year next before.
_Item_ that the rates of wages of the weavers and spinsters shall be for
this year now next ensuing as follows, viz.:--
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