CHAPTER III 



AGRICULTURAL WAGES 



IN dealing with wages in agricultural 

 employment I propose to take a broad 

 historical survey, and to begin, as in the 

 case of rents and profits, with the mediaeval 

 period, or more particularly the period from 

 the Norman Conquest to the end of the 

 fifteenth century or the beginning of the 

 Tudor period. 



Rogers has declared emphatically that 

 the fifteenth century was the golden age 

 of English labour, and as at that time the 

 greater part of the labour was employed 

 in agriculture, this means that it was in 

 his opinion the golden age of agricultural 



