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A History of the County of Essex
… demands, made by rioting weavers in 1724, for higher wages and led to over-production. 29 In 1727 optimism rose … took no apprentices, and had prospered by reducing wages from 15 s. 6 d. to 12 s. 6 d. for a bay, which took two … to be paid by the bay or by the week. 34 Compared with wages of nearly 9 s. a week paid to Exeter serge weavers in …
A History of the County of Essex
… weavers' grievances, and in 1724 weavers rioted for higher wages. The Luddite protests in 1811-16 against the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… each had £45 between them, and only 6 paid merely on their wages. 88 In the late 17th and early 18th century the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1847 with £1,000 of Consols, mostly for the teacher's wages. Although the National Society gave £100 towards the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was often well over £300 in the early 1830s. 68 About 1830 wages were sometimes made up with allowances for large …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and a mob, assembling, and demanding an increase of wages, which was not granted, proceeded to cut down the webs … the Clyde, a contribution of fourpence per month from the wages of each seaman, and occasional donations and bequests. …
The medieval records of a London City church
… Bass, hiring of, 349; payments to, 359, 393, 405, 409; wages of, xxiii. Bastard, n. sweet Spanish wine, 172. … 8, 10; sustentation of, 11, 13, 17, 19; vestments of, 303; wages of, 346 ( see also Priests). Chapels, burying in, xlix. … see also Parson's Duty); payments to ( see Roll of Clerks' wages and Payment to Clerks); Rectors of ( see Rectors of …
A Survey of London
… same gate <Ludgate> adioyning.' quarterage, a quarter's wages or pension ( N.E.D.), i. 181. See pilgrim. Queen: 'The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… as a consequence of falling food prices and rising real wages. It was also encouraged by the city's closer ties with … lower classes, then enjoying a substantial rise in real wages. Such establishments sold a growing variety of drinks …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Combination Acts for holding meetings to seek higher wages 137 but the radical movements of the early 19th century …