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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… for my self, having nothing to lyve upon for that litle wages which I had lefte att the departing out of my master …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… by the week which 4 pence being deducted out of his weekly wages, and the affection of people in other places whre he …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… same is fallen to decaye, which as timber and workemens wages now is will cost above 25 pounds to make it as the said …
A History of the County of Essex
… men walked to Mersea for work at haymaking time. 90 Low wages, especially at times of high food prices, 91 as well as … workers threatened to burn their employers' farms if their wages were not increased, but the ringleaders were … at Long Acres farm struck successfully for an increase in wages from 9 d. to 10 d. a day, but in 1851 two of their …
A History of the County of Essex
… hired out to work in the village, the vestry receiving his wages. 35 Surveyors paid unem- ployed men 10 d. a day in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by the Nat. Sunday League in 1911. Beach Ho. 12. Rep. Com. Wages and Conditions of Employment in Agric. ii [Cmd. 25], p. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1524 17 inhabitants were assessed to the subsidy on their wages, 13 on goods worth under £5, 3 on goods worth between … Surv. 137; Marshall, 'Worthing Grown', 13. Rep. Com. Wages and Conditions of Employment in Agric. ii [Cmd. 25], …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In 1791 the introduction of a new system of regulating wages and hours by the Coalbrookdale partners led to riots at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of 1524, for which 26 men were assessed on goods and wages, seems to have omitted some leading freeholders and … £3, but 15 were assessed at the lowest level on labourers' wages. 63 John Chamberlain, who had acquired Yarnton by 1570, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… such recipients in 1818 and 27 in 1834. 29 The payment of wages to roundsmen was well established by the later 18th … farmers were to pay the 'usual rate', unspecified, for wages in Yarnton. There was another year of crisis in 1834-5, when the vestry's share of wages was £74. 30 The parish owned an unusual number of …