20 ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTES OF LABOURERS 



Commissions. 



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26 1 

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29 1 



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Peace • • | 2 



Labourers j 3 



Peace 1 13 



Labourers | 17 



Peace 1 26 



Labourers 31 



Peace 15 



Labourers 5Q 



Peace 18 



Labourers 11 



Peace 10 



30 { 



^ I [Labourers | 41 



r 1 Peace j 10 



'^ \ [Labourers 9 



f Peace ■ 44 



33 



[Peace • •• • 

 [Labourers 



Districts 



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5 

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2 



5 



6 



12 



Number of Commis- 

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 issued for 



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22 J 

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2 



5 

 8 



12 



7 



7 

 5 

 9 



The total number of men appointed between 1349 and 

 1359 to enforce the statutes of labourers was 671.' While 

 "justices of labourers" is commonly used in contem- 

 porary documents to refer to those members of the joint 

 commissions having to do with the labour legislation," 



^ Of course this by no means adequately represents the number of ap- 

 pointments; one man may have received as many as ten or fifteen letters 

 patent for various counties, or on successive occasions for the same 

 county. 



'The phrase also occurs during the first period; but by chance I have 

 found it only as applied to men whose appointment is not recorded on 

 the Patent Rolls, so that it is difficult to determine the form of their 

 commissions. 



