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mown at this period. This was done or paid for by the customary 
tenants. The price of mowing an acre was 6d.” 
By an “‘ Assessment of the Corporation of Canterbury,” made in 
1594, the following were the rates of wages declared payable :— 
‘* Every labourer from Easter to Michaelmas, with meat and drink, 
4d. per day ; finding himself, rod.; and from Michaelmas to Easter, 
with meat and drink, 4d. ; without, 8¢. Mowers per day, with meat 
and drink, 8d. ; finding themselves, 14d. By the acre, with meat and 
drink, 4d.; without, 8d. Reapers per day, with meat and drink, 6d. ; 
finding themselves, 12d.; by the acre, with meat and drink, 14d. ; 
without, 28d. Plashing and teeming of a quick hedge, 2d. per rod. 
Laying upon the band and binding and copping of oats, 8d., barley, 
1od. Threshers by the quarter with meat and drink, for the quarter 
and making clean of wheat and rye, 5d., oats and barley, 3¢.; without 
meat and drink, for the quarter and making clean of wheat and 
rye, 12d., oats and barley, 6d. Making talewood, the load, 4d. ; 
billets, per 1ooo, 12d. <A bailiff, with livery, £3 per annum; 
without livery, £3 6s. 8d.”—Hasted’s Antiquities of Canterbury, 
1801, vol. ii. Appendix. 
“Larges,” ‘‘ usually a shilling” (says Major Moor in his Suffolk 
Glossary). ‘For this the reapers will ask you if you ‘chuse to 
have it hallered.’ If answered, yes, they assemble in a ring, holding 
each other’s hands, and inclining their heads to the centre. One 
of them, detached a few yards apart, calls loudly, thrice, ‘ Holla 
Lar !—Holla Lar !—Holla Lar!—jees.’ Those in the ring lengthen 
out 0-0-0-0 with a low sonorous note and inclined heads, and then 
throwing the head up, vociferate ‘a-a-a-ah.’? This thrice repeated 
for a shilling is the established exchange in Suffolk.” <‘‘ Largesse 
bounty, handfuls of money cast among the people.”—Cotgrave. 
‘*Crye a larges when a rewarde is geven to workemen, sfipem vo- 
ciferare.”—Huloet’s Dict.1552. The phrase ‘‘criea largesse” occurs 
in Piers Plowman, B Text, xiii. 449. As to the gloves given to 
harvest-men see above and note to 51. Io. 
57. 16. Though barley is generally mown, it is a slovenly practice, 
unless when performed with a cradle scythe—M. See note to 
TOL. 
57. 17. ‘ Dallops,” patches of barley which have run to straw.—M. 
57. 22. Tidie means neat, proper, and in season.—M. 
57. 24. ‘There finding a smack,” 7.c. finding a pleasant repast. 
“Doo perish,” z.e. cause to perish, ruin: the use of “do” in this 
sense is very common in Early English. 
57. 25. “‘Lengthen” here is equivalent to increase the extent or 
produce of. 
57. 26. “Fill out the black boule,” etc. I am quite unable to 
explain this line; the “boule of bleith” is evidently the ‘‘ merry 
bowl,” but the epithet d/ack I do not understand. 
57. 30. ‘Thrifts ladder may clime,” z.e. may prosper. Cf. ch. 9. 
