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fourpence with meat and drink, and sixpence without, for an acre of 

 meadow by the statute measure twelve pence. 



A Haymaker, Weed, or Looker of Come being a man shall not take 

 by the day with meat and drink above four pence and without meat 

 eight pence. A woman two pence with meat and four pence without. 



Labourers of Husbandry. 



Every man Labourer for ditching and pailing, Railing, Hedging, 

 Threshing and other Labourers, from the feast of S* Martin till Candle- 

 mas shall not take for wages by the day with meat and drink above 

 two pence and without meat not above sixpence, and from Candlemas 

 until! the feast of S* Martin not above fourpence by the day with 

 meat and drink and without meat and drink not above eightpence. 



No man shall [take for] sashing (?) or setting any ditch having quick 

 wood ready laid beside him which ditch is more than one yard and a 

 quarter broad and a yard deep above Six pence for a rood, and when 

 the ditch is bigger or lesser more or less according to the quality or rate. 



No man that scoureth a ditch threespade bredth and two depth 

 shall take for one rood scouring above two pence, and for staking one 

 spade Gripp in breadth and depth for every rood not above one penny. 



No man shall for making a rough dry Stone wall having the stones 

 laid by him which wall is one yard and a halfe high, and half a yard 

 thick, take above twelve pence a rood without meat and drink. 



Artificer or Handicraftsmen. 



A Master mason that taketh charge of a man's building having under 

 him one two or three Men that have been two or three years at the 

 Occupation shall not take for wages for himself by the day at any time 

 of the year with meat and drink above six pence and without meat and 

 drink not above twelve pence, and for every one that worketh under him 

 he shall not take by the day with meat and drink from the feast of 

 S* Michael the Arch Angel to the twenty-fifth of March above five 

 pence and without meat and drink not above ten pence. A Master 

 Carpenter who taketh charge of a building that hath one or two or three 

 men under him that hath been two or three years at the Science shall 

 not. take for wages by the day without meat and drink above twelve 

 pence and with meat and drink not above sixpence. A Master Mill 

 Wright eighteenpence, his serv* twelvepence J . A master or other that 

 hath but one man or none and that are not master of a charge of 

 a building but of other worke as hewing Squaring walling or such like, 

 Limeburner, Cooper, Bricklayer, Thatcher, Brickmaker, Slater, Tiler, 

 shall not take by the day for wages with meat and drink from the 

 Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary untill Michaelmas above 

 sixpence, and without meat and drink not above twelvepence, and from 

 the feast of S* Michael the Arch Angel until the twentyfifth day of 

 March with meat and drink not above fourpence and without meat 

 and drink not above tenpence. 



Colliers. 



No collier 2 or workman that is skilful in getting coals shall take 

 wages by the day without meat and drink above twelve pence. 



a Without meat or drink, 1706. 2 Or clothier in later editions. 



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