Note 381 — Chapter X · SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT MORTALITY.
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Amyot (Archæologia, xx, p. 531) notes that even soldiers appear to have been better paid than the clergy. A foot soldier had 3d. a day, or 7 marks a year; a horse soldier 10d. or 12d. a day. Chaucer's good parson, who was only "rich of holy thought and werk," might not be remarkable.