PROVISIONS. 
£54 
The price of labour, mentioned above, is to be tin-* 
derstood as that of common day labourers: those who 
are qualified to undertake, and are entrusted with the 
care of any particular part of the business, such as the 
management of feeding cattle, or the care of sheep, re¬ 
ceive from 10s. to 12s. a week. Women have 6d. 
with, or 8d. Avithout drink. The price of piece-work 
varies in different parts of the county; the customary 
daily wages being the rule by which it appears to be 
regulated. The yearly wages of an able man servant, 
are from 5l. to 7k a year, exclusive of diet, washing, 
and lodging ; some few, and those chiefly such as are 
entrusted with the care of the team horses employed 
on the farm, receive from eight to twelve guineas. 
Women servants, from 50s. to 4l.— Mr. Pomeroy. 
1807. Labourers near Bromsgrove, have from 8s« 
to 10s. per week, and beer, with meat in harvest. 
Mr. Knight keeps about half a dozen labourers in 
constant employ, to do all sorts of work, ploughing as 
Avell as other ; their wages are 1 Is. per week in com¬ 
mon, and 12s. per week to those who have the care of 
horses, or other stock; but no regular allowance of 
beer, but some is given occasionally. In hay and com 
harvest they have 15s. per week, and beer, but not 
board, unless occasionally at the pleasure of their em¬ 
ployer. 
SECT. II.—PROVISIONS. 
Every kind of provisions, necessary for the comforts, 
or conducing to the luxuries, of mankind, is raised in 
this county. The rich Yale of Evesham, and the other 
cultivated 
