6 1 2 Documents. 



No Filler or Barrower of Coals shall take for his wages by the day 

 without meat and drink above ten pence. 



No Banksman or Drawer upp of Coals shall take for his wages by the 

 Day without meat and drink above eight pence. 



Grav r8 of turfs or peats by the day with meat and drink four pence, 

 without meat and drink eight pence. 



Ordered Pontefract, 6 April, 1703. 



That the Justices of the peace at their monthly meeting twice in 

 the year at least require the petty Conbles to give an Ace* what number 

 of men and women servants each Inhabitant within his Constabulary hath 

 and what quality and what wages every master gives to every particular 

 Servfc ; that one or more of the next Justices of the peace be p'sent att 

 the Statute or Petty Sess 8 and that the Bayliffe of every Hundred and 

 their Deputies together with the Chief Conbles and all_the petty Conbles 

 be sumoned to give their attendance at the s d petty Sess 8 , and that the s d 

 Sess 8 be kept only in the month of October next upon such dayes as the 

 Justices of the yeare shall appoint. 



That a copy of these rates be sent to every Township and the same be 

 published in every market Town att the Market Crosse between the 

 houres of twelve and one upon four market days together next after the 

 feast of S* John Baptist by the Bayliffe of the Hundred, and likewise that 

 the petty Conbles go to every particular family and declare the contents 

 of these orders and the Rates of Wages, and that these Orders and Rates 

 be by the several Conbles of every Church, Chappell or Towne fixed 

 upon the s d Churche or Chappell the Sunday before the s d Statute or 

 petty Sessions. 



And to the end that Masters and Servts ma y no t be ignorant of the 

 Law they are to take notice that no Master shall turne away his Serv* 

 without Law 11 cause, to be allowed by the Justices of the peace or 

 a quarter of a years warning given before the end of his terme under the 

 forfeiture of forty shillings, that no Serv* shall depart from his masters 

 service without lawful cause or a quarter of a Year Warning given before 

 two witnesses before the end of his term under pain of imprisonment. 



That no master shall give greater or less wages than are appointed by 

 this order under the forfeiture of five pounds, that no Servt betwixt twelve 

 and sixteen years of age not lawfully retained shall refuse to serve in 

 husbandry nor shall take greater wages than one appointed by this order 

 under the pains and penalties that the Laws in that case do inflict. 



That no servant shall depart from his Service without a testimoniall 

 according to the Statute under the Conble and two honest Householders 

 hands where he last lived, nor be retained without shewing such 

 testimonial under pain of Imprisonm* and that no Master shall [? refuse] 

 a Serv* with such a testimonial under the forfeiture of five pounds 

 according to the statute made in the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth, 

 which said testimonial by the said Statute is to be in these or the like 

 words : 

 West Ridd. ) MemorantS that A. B. servt of C. D. of E. husbandman in 



Com. Ebor. / this Ryding is licensed to depart from his Master and is 

 att liberty to serve elsewhere according to the statute in 

 that case made and provided. In witness whereof wee 

 who are Inhabt* of the s d Town of E. have hereunto 



sett our hands the day of In the year of 



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