For thatching, Best continues: “Wee usually provide two women for helpes in this kinde, _viz._, one to drawe thacke, and the other to serve the thatcher; she that draweth thacke hath 3d. a day, and shee that serveth the thatcher 4d. a day, because shee also is to temper the morter, and to carry it up to the toppe of the howse.... Shee that draweth thatch shoulde always have dry wheate strawe ... whearewith to make her bandes for her bottles. She that serveth will usually carry up 4 bottles at a time, and sometimes but 3 if the thatch bee longe and very wette.”[109] Footnote 109: _Ibid._, pp. 138-9. “The thatchers,” Best says, “have in most places 6d. a day & theire meate in Summer time, ... yett we neaver use to give them above 4d ... because their dyett is not as in other places; for they are to have three meale a day, viz. theire breakfaste att eight of the clocke, ... theire dinner about twelve and theire supper about seaven or after when they leave worke; and att each meale fower services, viz. butter, milke, cheese, and either egges, pyes, or bacon, and sometimes porridge insteade of milke: if they meate themselves they have usually 10d. a day.” “Spreaders of mucke and molehills are (for the most parte) women, boyes and girles, the bigger and abler sorte of which have usually 3d. a day, and the lesser sorte of them 2d. a day.”[110] “Men that pull pease have 8d. women 6d. a day.”[111] Footnote 110: Best, _Rural Economy_, p. 140. Footnote 111: _Ibid._ p. 142. A picture of hay-harvesting in the West of England given by Celia Fiennes suggests that in other parts of England to which she was accustomed, the labour, especially that of women, was not quite so heavy. All over Devon and Cornwall she says, hay is carried on the horses’ backs and the people “are forced to support it wᵗʰ their hands, so to a horse they have two people, and the women leads and supports them, as well as yᵉ men and goe through thick and thinn.... I wondred at their Labour in this kind, for the men and the women themselves toiled Like their horses.”[112] Footnote 112: Fiennes (Celia), _Through England on a Side-saddle_, p. 225. There was hardly any kind of agricultural work from which women were excluded. Everenden “payed 1s. 2d. to the wife of Geo. Baker for shearing 28 sheep.”[113] In Norfolk the wages for a “woman clipper of sheepe” were assessed at 6d. per day with meat and drink, 1s. without, while a man clipper was paid 7d. and 14d. It is noteworthy that only 4d. per day was allowed in the same assessment for the diet of “women and such impotent persons that weed corn and other such like Laborers” and 2d. per day for their wages.[114] Pepys on his visit to Stonehenge “gave the shepherd-woman, for leading our horses, 4d.,”[115] while Foulis enters, “Jan. 25, 1699 to tonie to give ye women at restalrig for making good wailings of strae, 4s. (Scots money).”[116] Footnote 113: