c^O ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTES OF LABOURERS 



excessive: i8s. for half a year, ad mensam ; 6d. per day 

 in August, with food and drink; 2d. per day in winter, 

 with food and drink.' 



Reaper's. Statutory rate is 2d. or 3d. per day; they 

 frequently receive 5d. and 66..' 



Mowers of meadows. Statutory rate is 5d. per acre ; 

 they are recorded as taking gd., amounting to 20s. in 

 excess;' also lod. and 8d. for half an acre, and lod., I2d. 

 and I4d. for an acre.* 



Hoers. Statutory rate is id. per day; a woman takes 

 2d. per day, amounting to i2d. in excess. ^ 



Threshitig of coj-ji. Statutory rate is 2d. ob. per quar- 

 ter, but in Derby even less must be usual, for it is said 

 that 3d. per quarter for 20 quarters amounts to 2s. in 

 excess.^ 



Threshhtg of barley. Statutor} rate is id. ob. per 

 quarter; 8d. is paid for four quarters.^ 



Artisans. — A dauber takes 3d. per day and food, in- 

 stead of the previous rate of id. and food;® coverers of 

 houses are receiving double the customary rate ; ^ a serv- 

 ant of a smith, having been sworn to take 8s. a year, 

 received 20s. ; '° a sawyer takes 5d. per day, with food, the 

 statutory rate for carpenter, mason and tiler being only 

 3d. per day ; " a fuller receives double the legal rate to 

 the amount of 3s. 4d. ;" a weaver is paid \6.. pro ulna 

 instead oi pro tribus ulnis;^^ tailors take treble the cus- 

 tomary wages."* 



Although a great many victuallers as well as sellers of 

 other commodities are indicted, I have found peculiarly 



'172, 267; Assize Roll, Essex, 268; m. 16. 

 * Printed Wiltshire roll, 17-18. '•'IMd. 



'231. "194- "171- 



"164. " Printed Wiltshire roll. 12. 



