The Assessments deal largely with the wages of unmarried farm servants and with special wages for the seasons of harvest, intended for the occasional labour of husbandmen, but in addition there are generally rates quoted by the day for the common labourer in the summer and winter months. Even when meat and drink is supplied, the day-rates for these common labourers are higher than the wages paid to servants living in the house and are evidently intended for married men with families. In one Assessment different rates are expressly given for the married and unmarried who are doing the same work,[121] a married miller receiving with his meat and drink, 4d. a day which after deducting holidays would amount to £500 by the year, while the unmarried miller has only 46s. 8d. and a pair of boots. Footnote 121: A shoemaker servant of the best sorte being married, to have without meate and drinke for every dosin of shoes —— xxijid. ditto unmarried to have by the yeare with meat and drink and withowte a leverye —— liijs. Millers and drivers of horses beinge batchelors then with meate and drinke and without a liverye and a payre of boots —— xlvis viijid. Millers and drivers of horses beinge married men shall not take more by the daye then with meate and drinke —— ivid. and without viijid. a man servant of the best sorte shall not have more by the yeare then with a levereye —— xls. and without xlvjs viiid. the same, of the thirde sorte has only with a leverye xxvjs viiid. and without —— xxxiijs iiijd. while any sort of labourer, from the Annunciation of our Ladye until Michellmas has with meat and drink by the day —— ivd. and without viijd. From Michellmas to the Annunciation —— iiid. and without vijd. The best sorte of women servants shall not have more by the yeare than with a liverye —— xxjs. and without —— xxvjs viijd. while “a woman reaping of corne” shall not have “more by the daye then —— vd with meat and drink.” (_Hertfordshire Assessment_, 1591). Every man-servant serving with any person as a Comber of Wooll to have by the yeare —— 40s. Every such servant being a single man and working by yᵉ pound to have by yᵉ pound —— 1ᵈ. Every such servant being a marryed man and having served as an apprentice thereto according to the statute to have by yᵉ pound —— 2ᵈ. (_Assessment for Suffolk_, 1630). Assessments generally show a similar difference between the day wages of a common labourer and the wages of the best man-servant living in the house, and it may therefore be assumed that day labourers were generally married persons. Day rates were only quoted for women on seasonal jobs, such as harvest and weeding. It was not expected that married women would work all the year round for wages, and almost all single women were employed as servants.