y^ ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTES OF LABOURERS 



and refuse to work;' a labourer refuses to work except 

 at double the legal rate ; ^ a number of men hold only 

 small portions of land and yet refuse to work.^ 



Contract clause.'' A ploughman departs within the 

 term agreed upon ; ^ after making a contract, a woman 

 refuses to enter the service of her employer;^ at the com- 

 mand of the justices a woman is delivered to her master 

 that she may serve out her term ; ^ an employer eloigns 

 the servant of another by the offer of higher wages ; ^ a 

 servant departs within the term agreed upon without 

 reasonable cause.^ 



A combination of these two clauses with the clause 

 prohibiting departure in summer from the abode of win- 

 ter results in a type of case that reminds one of the later 

 law of parochial settlement. A number of labourers de- 

 part a patria in the autumn ; '° one labourer departs him- 

 self a patria and persuades others to depart ; " a carpenter 

 enters service extra feodum contrary to the ordinance ; " 

 a servant departs from her town in the autumn for a 

 larger salary ;'3 a number of women go to another town 

 in the autumn although suitable service is offered them 

 in their native place; "* a labourer goes out of the county, 

 leaving his service before the end of his term. '^ 



Clause as to service by us2ial terms. A ploughman re- 



•i94- '171. 



*224. Cf. petition quoted pt. ii, ch. ii, s. 4. 



* For the attitude of the upper courts toward this clause, (/. pt. ii, ch. 

 ii, s. 5. 



^ 185-186; an especially good example of an action brought at the suit 

 of a plaintiff. 



*I92. '214. "^196. "'-23. 



"146-147. 11 147. "214. '-'226. >*i98. 



1=^ Printed Wiltshire Roll. 14. 



