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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 98, f. 194d.; Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, 105; J. C. Tinguy, 'English towns with their …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Act of Parliament concerning rating and certain rates of wages of servants and artificers, or against the proclamation … of those who refused to pay the scavenger his appointed wages. 200 Another scavenging order to the same effect …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… with ten men-at-arms and twenty archers. 101 The wages of this force were still unpaid after nearly a year's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… digging new ones cost 2 d. or 3 d. a perch, the labourers' wages being 4 d. a day. A 'drainage tax' of ¼ d. or ½ d. an …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Charity Trustees. 5 A beadle is mentioned in 1621. His wages were 12 d. a week, and he also acted as scavenger. 6 In … to the crier or bellman are numerous. In 1576 his wages were 2 s. a quarter, and in 1609 'old father Parker' … the Revd. Jeremiah Jackson. 16 By 1822 the sum paid in wages to watchmen was cut from £92 8 s. to £15 for economy's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… tow, bought for the poor to work up, cost £10 2 s. 7 d. Wages to those employed amounted to £4. The finished goods …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were poorer broadweavers who worked at least partly for wages. Some had their own looms, among them a weaver with … of fulled cloth, while other fullers presumably worked for wages at the water-powered mills. 68 Dyers formed another … with others employed in sorting, cleaning, and winding. 81 Wages fluctuated, 82 though not all such people were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rather than weavers and other employees, whose wages in 1807 were depressed and whose numbers he claimed had … all, a few of them immigrants from Gloucestershire: though wages in Witney were smaller, conditions and regularity of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… meetings at Early's attended by at least one director. Wages were negotiated between unions at the West of England …