303 ON THE PRICE OF LABOUR. 



III. In this table the highest price of labour is given in 

 all columns but the first : this is the average price of carpen- 

 ter's labour. The second column is the highest price of the 

 same labour. The third is the highest price of mason's; the 

 fourth of tiler's; the fifth of slater's, (in both these cases the 

 fact of an assistant being reckoned in the wages is designated 

 by the sign *) ; the sixth of sawyer's ; the seventh of sawing 

 by the hundred feet. With the exception of the last, all pay- 

 ments are by the day. 



IV. This table gives the decennial averages of each kind of 

 labour , and the average, first, for the ninety, second, for the 

 fifty years before and after the Great Plague. 



The prices throughout are expressed in pence. 



V. Lastly, as before, the prices of labour are reduced to 

 grains of silver. 



