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and prices ; it is therefore the offenders against these two 

 clauses who must be most carefully studied. The " givers " 

 cannot always be readily identified, but fortunately there 

 are several cases where they are referred to specifically ; 

 e. g., a master of a house,' a bailiff in search of agri- 

 cultural hands, a reeve,' and employers of various classes 

 of artisans, spinners, tailors, tanners etc., who need serv- 

 ants in their crafts. ^ It is with regard to the "takers" 

 that these rolls furnish the most complete information ; 

 the evidence given in a preceding section on the clauses 

 of the legislation enforced by the 'ustices included suiifi- 

 cient examples to prove that the takers of excess wages 

 and prices fall into the economic groups indicated by the 

 ordinance and statute, and although my data are not 

 enough for a statistical study, it seems desirable on the 

 basis of my extracts from the sessional records,'' of the 

 printed roll for Wiltshire ^ and also of my extracts from 

 the schedules of accounts of penalties,^ and of the printed 

 account roll for London, ^ to present the following lists. 

 incomplete though they are, in order to give a definite 

 idea of the variety of crafts and occupations represented 

 by the delinquents.^ An asterisk indicates those that are 

 specifically mentioned in either or both of the enact- 

 ments. It must be remembered that the ambiguous term 

 seruiens is very frequent, with no clue as to the nature 



'App., 227. ^App., 226-227. ''App., 155. *App., C, I. 



^ Cf. app., 228, for an account of this roll. * App., 332-334; 380. 



'For this roll cf. p. 86, note i. 



^Further lists are given in pt. ii, ch. ii, s. 4 in order to show the 

 status of the offenders in the upper courts; moreover, the extracts in the 

 appendix from Ancient Indictments furnish additional instances, in 

 some cases, of crafts not represented in quarter sessions. It must be 

 left for some future investigator to compile on the basis of all these 

 sources really exhaustive statistics. 



