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Calendar of Treasury Books
… to the custody of the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod during the last Session of Parliament and were not able …
Journal of the House of Lords
… they have no other Work for them, in digging, at so much a Rod. At what Wages were they so employed? I do not know; I believe it was done at so much a Rod; and it was understood, in general, to be such Wages as …
Journal of the House of Lords
… by the Piece." The Poor would undertake the Work at 3 d. a Rod, Perch or Pole, that is, Thirty Square Yards and a … being about 2. per Acre; but we allow them 4 d. per Rod, or 2. 13 s. 4 d. per Acre; we will say 2.: but when we … might dig, as a Substitute for ploughing it; at 3 d. a Rod or Perch, the digging of 160 Perches, being One Acre, …
Journal of the House of Lords
… making the Fences, they were employed at Task Work-by the Rod; but when they began to dig the Soil up, they are now …
Journal of the House of Lords
… with. What is your Measure of paying by hedging? By the Rod. What do you pay now, per Rod, for hedging? Two-pence Halfpenny a Rod for One Side; 5 d. a Rod for the Two. Do you know what …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Piece in hedging and ditching? They do. Do they pay by the Rod? Yes; what we call in that Country the Lug. How much a … so well as they did; they would sooner give a Man 1½ d. a Rod to do it imperfectly, than give him 2 d. a Rod to do it perfectly. Do you think that the Farmers have …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Gentlemen Ushers: Daily Waiters: Sir William Oldys, Black Rod; Fra[nci]s Ashton, Esq.; Jerem[iah] Chaplaine, Esq., and … for 400 l. to Sir William Oldes, Gentleman Usher Black Rod, for two years to 1713 June 24 on his allowance of 200 l. … of Sir David Mitchell, late Gentleman Usher Black Rod for 158 days 1710 Dec. 25 to 1711 June 1, the day of his …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… forfeit the sum of twenty shillings for every Pole or Rod of Ground; and so after that Rate for a greater quantity …