96 Rents, Wages^ and Profits in Agriculture 



of a corresponding family for a similar 

 amount of work at the end of the 

 fifteenth. 



In actual money the amount earned in 

 the earlier period, according to a statute 

 of 1495, was about £i\ los., or about 

 one - half of the money earned in 1770, 

 viz., £^\ 8s. But when we look to the 

 corresponding real wages, we find that in 

 1495 the 4-lb. loaf was worth only J-d., 

 as against 5d. in 1770, butter was id. 

 against 7d., cheese Jd. against 4d., and 

 meat also id. against 4d. On the whole, 

 then, Rogers calculates that the family of 

 the agricultural labourer in Young's time 

 ought to have received in money, so as to 

 get the same real wages, not simply double, 

 as was the case, but seven and a half times 

 as much. Or putting it otherwise, the 

 family earnings in Young's time ought to 

 have been more than three times as high 



