+-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ | | | | Digging, | | | | | Tiler or | Bricklayer | Labourer to | Hedging, or | Women's | | | Slater | and Man | Artisan | Ditching | ordinary work | | | per week | per week | per week | per week | per week | +-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ | | _s._ _d._ | _s._ _d._ | _s._ _d._ | _s._ _d._ | _s._ _d._ | | 1603-1612 | 6 0 | 10 9½ | 4 0 | 4 10½ | 2 6 | +-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ | 1613-1622 | 6 2¾ | 10 2¾ | 4 0¼ | 4 10¾ | 1 11 | +-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ | 1623-1632 | 6 8 | 11 0 | 4 4¼ | 4 9 | 2 1½ | +-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ | 1633-1642 | 7 6 | 11 8¾ | 5 0 | 5 6½ | 3 0 | +-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ | 1643-1652 | 9 5½ | 14 1¾ | 5 10½ | 5 9½ | 2 6 | +-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ | 1653-1662 | 11 1 | 17 7 | 6 0 | 6 0 | 2 6 | +-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ | 1663-1672 | 9 11¼ | 13 0 | 6 1¼ | 6 1¾ | 3 0 | +-----------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------------+ It will be seen that wages rose slowly before 1632, and then began to rise at a much more rapid rate, and that the wages of unskilled labour rose almost as much during the decade 1633 to 1642 as during the ten years in which the war was conducted.