A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



A list of the Cuddington wages affords an instance where the wages 

 seem to have been unaffected by the Black Death, but the list at Cheddington 

 gives evidence of an entirely opposite effect. 



Servant . 



Carter 



Ploughman 



Shepherd . 

 Swineherd . 

 Dairyman . 

 Hayward . 

 Cowherd . 



CUDDINGTON : WAGES BY THE YEAR 

 1336-7 U1 1380-1 m 



6s. 8d. 

 6s. 



6s. 

 6s. 



6s. 



6s. 



35. 6d. 

 6s. 



y. 6d. 



I4i6-i7 116 



6s. 8d. 



(master) IOJ. 



(master) 8s. 



2nd 8s. 

 2 others 6s. each 



IOS. 



6s. 

 6s. 8d. 



CHEDDINGTON : WAGES BY THE YEAR 



Thus at Cheddington there is a considerable rise between the years 1341 

 and 1363, but fourteen years later the wages were more than doubled, and at 

 Weedon, 123 in the same hundred, there is a rise in the wages between i 377 

 and 1382. 



At Whaddon, in the same hundred, the accounts present rather a peculiar 

 case, since no wages had been entered in the accounts till after the Black 

 Death. In i356, m however, the wages were 4.1-. Sd. for the ploughman, 

 dairyman, carter, and swineherd, and 6s. for the drivers, but no rise took 

 place before I363- 134 



On other manors in Aylesbury Hundred the rate seems to have been 

 similar to that at Cuddington, but in the hundreds of Ashendon and Stoke 

 the rate was slightly lower. At Kingsey m there were no carters, but seven 

 servants going with the carts and ploughs in winter. The wages for all 

 seven were 13*. for the half-year in 1360, so that each man received on an 

 average a little more than is. lod. The ploughman had the privilege of 

 ploughing his land with his lord's ploughs, and so received no wages. At 



113 P.R.O. Mins. Accts. bdle. 760, No. 13. '" Ibid. No. 14. ui Ibid. No. 10. 



116 Mins. Accts. belonging to Merton College, Oxford, rot. 5531. " 7 Ibid. rot. 5541. 

 118 Ibid. rot. 5570J. " 9 Ibid. rot. 5589. ' uo Ibid. rot. 5561. 



121 In the previous year the dairyman received 5/. at Michaelmas and zs. at Lady Day. Hence the 

 omission in 1363 of the latter payment is probably a mistake. 



128 Thorold Rogers, Hist, of Agric. and Prices, ii. m P.R.O. Mins. Accts. bdle. 763, No. 30. 



124 Ibid. bdle. 764, No. 5. ' Ibid. bdle. 761, No. 8. 



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