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VIII. 



A TABLE OF THE RATES OF WAGES, EXTRACTED FROM 

 THE ART OF HUSBANDRY BY JOHN MORTIMER, F.R.S., 

 ABOUT 1707 (VoL. I. PP. 380-385 AND 388-391). 



Carpenter s work. 



Carpenter s work is measured by the square, that is ten Foot each way, 

 or one hundred square Feet ; at London they will build a House four 

 Story high for forty Pounds a Square, if built with Oak-Timber, and 

 thirty Pound a square for Fir ; that is to find all Materials, and all the 

 Carpenters, Bricklayers, Plaisterers and Glasiers work ; and considering 

 the Price of Timber, and workmanship in the Country, and that the 

 Houses are but three Stories high, and that they have all their materials 

 laid in, that is, carted for them, I cannot think but a good House may be 

 built for twenty five pound a Square in most places and in some 

 cheaper. 



The Carpenter's Work to frame a House in the Country, where you 

 find Timber, is seven or eight Shillings a Square, if the Carpenter pay 

 the Sawing ; if not 'tis four shillings and sixpence a Square. 



The Carpenter's Work to build a Barn in the Country that hath one 

 single Stud, or one heighth of Studs to the Roof, is two shillings a Foot, 

 but if it have a double Stud and a Girt, 'tis worth two Shillings and 

 Sixpence ; that is, to measure one side and one end ; as suppose 

 a Barn sixty Foot long, and twenty Foot broad, that is eighty Foot ; 

 this, the Carpenter's Work to hew the Timber, saw it out, frame it and 

 set it together, will come to, at two Shillings and Sixpence a Foot, 

 ten Pound, you finding the Timber. 



Bricklayer s Work. 



Bricklayer's Work at London, where a Bricklayer hath two Shillings 

 and Sixpence a Day, a labourer twenty Pence, and that Bricks are 

 fourteen shillings a Thousand, Lime Fourpence halfpenny a Bushel, and 

 Tiles two Shillings and Sixpence a hundred ; for the Bricklayer to find 

 the Bricks, Mortar, Scaffolding etc., for a House is five Pound a Pole- 

 Square, that is sixteen Foot and a half; but for Walling four Pound ten 

 Shillings a Pole, if the Bricklayer finds all Materials, is enough ; but for 

 his Work only, 'tis one Pound two Shillings a Pole, that is two hundred 

 seventy two square Feet, and a Brick and half thick ; in the country they 

 will build a wall for eighteen shillings a Pole, supposing the Wall to be 

 a Brick and a half thick. 



The Bricklayer's Work is measured by the Pole-Square, that is 

 deducting out all Windows and Doors in the Wall ; but if you are to 

 measure a Wall, as suppose of one hundred and twenty Foot long, and 

 thirteen Foot three Inches high, you must multiply the one by the other. 



