Sidney on Rural Expenditure. 



183 



A. D. £. s. d. 

 1425. Russet cloth for the shepherd, 



per yard - - 1 1 

 In money. For clothing. 



1446*. Bailiff, per ann. 13 5 

 Chief hired carter 



and shepherd 10 4 

 Common farm 



servant - 15 3 4 



Woman servant 10 4 



Girl under 14 .060 034 

 Free mason and 

 master carpen- For victuals, 



ter, per day - 4 1 



Tiler, slater, &c. 3 1 



Labourer - 2 1 

 From Michaelmas 

 they had each Id. 

 less. 



A mower per day 4 2 

 Reaper and carter 



each - - 3 2 

 Other labourers & 



women - 2 2 



1500. Wheat, per quarter - -0 3 4 



Peas - - - 2 



Timber hewn, per load -040 



A plough, with harness - 3 4 

 Wethers, young and old, per 



hundred of 6 score - 9 



A bullock - - - 7 



An ox - - 11 8 

 Steers and heifers, average, 



each - - - 9 



A cow - -' - 8 



A trotting gelding - - 1 

 A great trotting gelding -10 



An ambling hobby - - 1 6 8 



A feather bed and bolster - 1 



Pair of blankets - .020 

 A pair of flaxen sheets, 21 



yards - .. - 10 6 



1508. A fat wether - - 2 4 



A lamb - - - 1 



A pig - - 5 



A gosling - - - 4 



A capon - - - 4 



Chickens, 30 for - - 1 11 



Cream, per gallon - - 4 



Milk, ditto - - 1 



Honey, ditto - - 8 



Charcoal, per quarter - 5 

 1514. Wages, with diet, 



of a bailiff in In For 

 husbandry, per money, clothing, 

 annum - 16 8 5 

 Chief hind, car. 

 ter, and shep- 

 herd - - 10 5 

 Common servant 



of husbandry . 16 8 4 



Woman servant 10 4 

 Servant under 14 



years - - 068 040 



* Highest wages, with diet, by 23 Henry 6. 

 c.12. 



f Highest wages in harvest 



A.D. .£. s . d. £. s. d. 



1514. Free mason, mas- 

 ter carpenter, 

 rough mason, 

 bricklayer, ti- 

 ler, plumber, 

 glazier, carver, 

 joiner, per day 

 each, from Ea- 

 stertoMichael- 



mas - - 6 

 During the rest 

 of the year 

 they had Id. 

 less ; and if 

 the employers 

 furnished diet, 

 they deducted 

 2d. 

 Mower, per day, 6 

 Reaper and car- 

 ter, other la- 

 borers and wo- 

 men, per day, 



in harvest - 4J 

 1530. A herd boy in Scotland, with 

 a shirt, pair of shoes, diet, 

 &c. per annum - - 3 



1533% Beef, per lb. - - 0J 



Mutton - - - 0| 



Beef at the highest, per cwt 4 8 

 Fat oxen, each - - 1 6 8 



Fat wethers, ditto - - 3 4 



Fat calves - - - 3 4 



A fat lamb - - 1 



Milk, genuine from the cow, 

 three ale pints in summer, 

 and two ale pints in winter, 

 at Goodman's Fields, near 

 the Tower of London - 0J 

 ' 1557 § . Wheat, per quarter - 2 13 4 



Beans and rye - - 2 



Malt - - - 2 4 



Peas - - - 2 6 8 



Wheaten loaf of 11 ounces - 1 

 ||Wheat - - - 5 



Malt - - - 6 8 



Rye - - - 3 4 



Wheaten loaf of 56 ounces -0 1 

 [1610. Wheat and malt at Windsor, 



per quarter of nine bushels 1 15 10 

 A bailiff, per ami. - - 2 12 



A good servant in husbandry 2 10 

 A common servant who can 



mow - - - 2 



A ploughman - - 1 9 



. A boy under 16 - - 1 



A woman servant, who can 



bake, brew, and overlook 



others - - - 1 6 8 



Other women servants 16s. to 1 



A girl under 16 - - 14 



A chief miller - - 2 6 



A common miller - - 1 11 8 



t This year it was enacted, that butcher* 

 should sell their meat by weight. 

 \ Before harvest, in London. 

 I After harvest ■" ' 



But even after the quantity of silver, contained at various 

 periods in coin that all along retains the same denomination, 

 is accurately fixed, there is another difficulty ; this arises from 

 the insufficient data, for the construction of a table by which 

 all changes in the value of money should be measured. 

 Mr. George Shuckburgh constructed such a table : but Mr. 

 Hallam • observes, " It is strangely incompatible with every 



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