WAGES AND GENEKAL MONEY. 113 



June 26. Pd. John Wood, for drawing ten s. d. 



thrave pileings * for thaching the 



Over Wk. house . . . .030 

 Thos. Payne, 184 foot 1 in. thick 



popr.f Board. 



460 foot 1 in. 



81 foot Popplary, 1 in. thick 

 Moses Stockleys team card, brick & 



loam 2 hour qtr. One a Clock to 



Six, but no man wth. it. 

 ,, In 4 windows 30 foot glass by Jno. 



Hatton, 6d 15 



,, 27. Moses Stockleys team, 1 load timber 



from Boothen Green. 

 2 or 3 load Shawds,| & 2 or 3 load 



brick to the wall. 

 28. 4 load Shawds to wall. 

 ,, ,,12 load brick. 

 ., 7 load to wall. 

 July 1. 3 to Wk. house. 



From this same curious and highly interesting account- 

 book the following extracts will show the small amount of 

 wages paid in those days as compared with the present, and 

 the singular and amusing bargains between master and work- 

 man, regarding gifts of " earnest money," " old cloaths," 

 testaments, &c., which were made and agreed upon at 

 " hirings " among the potters, from a hundred to a hundred 

 and fifty years ago : 



1749. s. d. 

 Jany. 27. Hired Jno. Austin for placeing white, 



&c. pr week . . . . .056 



Pd. his whole earnest . . .030 



Feby. 14. Then hired Thos. Button . . .066 



Pd. 1 pr. Stockins. . . . .036 



Earnest for vineing || . . . . 15 



* t( Thraves of pileing." Piling was straw, and the thrave was twelve 

 sheaves j thus there were ten thraves led in this account, which would be 

 120 sheaves. 



t Poplar. 



J Shaivds, pot shards, i.e., broken pots for the foundations. 



|| Veining, same as in the combed and tortoiseshell wares. 



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