14!2 RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



segge of a bull that is two or three yeares olde, 4<i. ; libbers 

 have for libbinge of pigges, pennies a peece for the giltes, and 

 nothinge for the gautes, for they will gelde them as fast as they 

 can take them upp. Wee allwayes give our thatchers 4cZ. a day 

 and theire meate, or lOd. a day and meate themselfes ; others, 

 that finde them not soe good a dyett, give them od. a day and 

 theire meate, and sometimes Gd. a day and theire meate ; and 

 in the shortest day of ^vinter 4cZ. a day and theire meate ; 

 those that serve the thatchers have usually 4cZ. a day ; and 

 drawers of thatch 3d. a day. Lookers have (for the most parte) 

 Sd. a day ; the men that whette theire hookes -id., and boyes 

 and girles 2d. a day ; mowers of come and grasse have allwayes 

 10(/. a day ; some there are that will give them 11^/., and some 

 againe 12d., in a case of necessity : hay-makers are to have 4fl?. 

 a day : outliggers or rakers after have 6d. a day ; binders have 

 8d. a day ; men that pull pease have 8</. ; women that pull 

 pease have 6'/. a day ; those that trayle the sweathrake have 

 Qd. a day. Those daytaile men that helpe in with our corne 

 after it is downe have allwayes Hd. a day till all wiiite corne bee 

 in, and oftentimes 8d. till pease bee in allsoe, if wee finde that 

 they bee willinge and dilligent, and come betimes in fair mom- 

 inges. Thomas Wilton hath, for keepinge of the swine, I2d. a 

 weeke till such time as wee beginne to sheare, and from time 

 wee beginne to sheare till wee gette all mowne hee is to have 

 Is. 6d. per weeke : hee had allsoe a mease of j^on'idge and 

 bread on Sunday att noones, for drivinge the swine forth on 

 Sunday morninges. Coblers had formerly but 4:d. a day and 

 theire meate, but have now (id. a day and theire meate, because 

 cappinge leather is soe deare ; they are to bringe with them 

 cappinge leather, and tlirid whereon to make illions, and to leave 

 us all tlie endes that they spare ; they have the same wages in 

 winter that [theyj have in summer, and are to worke with a 

 candle after supper till such time as they goe to bedde ; wee 

 have them sometimes two dayes togeather. Taylors have 

 usually Sd. a day and theire meate, winter and summer, and 

 theire boyes 2d. after tliey have beene with them two or three 

 yeares ; but att theire first beinge apjirentises they have nothinge 

 but theire meate, and after that one penny a day. John Towse 

 had allwayes 4 /. a day, and his aj)prentiee, that had beene 

 fower yeares with him, 2d. a day. To our tiirashers, that bury 

 by quarter-tale, wee have allwayes given heretofoi'e 4./. a quar- 

 ter for oates, r>d. a quarter ibr barley, (jd. a (piarter for petise, 

 and 8^/. a quarter for winter corne, viz. ; wheate and rye, both 

 a rate ; and to each buryer a threave a strawe in the weeke, 

 and that of the same strawe that they threshed that weeke, of 



