The account-book of Mrs. Joyce Jefferies, a lady resident in Herefordshire and Worcestershire during the Civil War, comprises the receipt and expenditure of nine years. She lived a single person in her house in Hereford, and by no means on a contracted scale. Many female servants are mentioned, two having wages from £3 to £3 4_s._ per annum, with gowns of dark stuff at midsummer. Her coachman, receiving 40_s._ per annum, had at Whitsuntide, 1639, a new cloth suit and cloak; and when he was dressed in his best, wore fine blue silk ribbon at the knees of his hose. The liveries of this and another man-servant were, in 1641, of green Spanish cloth, and cost upwards of nine pounds. Her steward received a salary of £5 16_s._, and she kept for him a horse, which he rode to collect her rents and dues, and to see to the management of her estate. I have myself a book of accounts, a little later, where the "mayde of my wyfe" gets £3, and the footman £4 and his livery. In some houses a whole series of account-books has been preserved, showing, among other things, the rise in wages paid for servants, and very instructive they are. Here is from an account-book of 1777, in a country squire's house. Wages were paid on Lady Day for the whole year, and not quarterly. 1777. £ _s._ _d._ Sarah's wages 4 19 0 Old Becky's 3 0 0 Anne, half-year 1 0 0 Nanny 5 5 0 Cook 7 7 0 Gardener 2 7 0 Bray the waggoner 9 0 0 A certain Betty had for wages and bill 6 0 0 In an account-book for 1811 the wages are a little higher-- £ _s._ _d._ Footman 10 0 0 Coachman 14 0 0 Cook 8 8 0 Housemaid 6 6 0 Scullery-maid 2 5 0 The Boy 3 0 0 There died only a year ago an old woman who had been a servant since she was eighteen in two of the greatest houses in the neighbourhood. When she first went into service, she told me, it was at K--. She received £4 as her wage, and managed to save money on that. She was, however, given a washing-dress by her mistress at Lady Day. After some years she went to L-- Park, where she received £6. This was after a while raised to £7, and she invariably put away some of her wage. When after tried service her wage was raised to £10, the climax of her ambition was reached, she regarded herself as passing rich, and never hoped to obtain more. "For certain, sir," she said, "my work wasn't worth more." In my own parish churchyard, one of the best of the monuments is that raised by my grandfather to the memory of an old servant of his grandmother's. MR. THOMAS HILSDEN,