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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… second-best robe and ten shillings sterling besides his wages, together with two small girdles, one having a black … of peautre, and six shillings and eightpence besides her wages. To John Page, 'of his kitchen,' one paltok, 10 one pair of hose, and two shillings besides his wages. To Peter de Preston the robe of his craft 11 ( de …
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 …