Note 121 — Chapter III · AGRICULTURE

A shoemaker servant of the best sorte being married, to have without meate and drinke for every dosin of shoes —— xxijid.

ditto unmarried to have by the yeare with meat and drink and withowte a leverye —— liijs.

Millers and drivers of horses beinge batchelors then with meate and drinke and without a liverye and a payre of boots —— xlvis viijid.

Millers and drivers of horses beinge married men shall not take more by the daye then with meate and drinke —— ivid. and without viijid.

a man servant of the best sorte shall not have more by the yeare then with a levereye —— xls. and without xlvjs viiid.

the same, of the thirde sorte has only with a leverye xxvjs viiid. and without —— xxxiijs iiijd.

while any sort of labourer, from the Annunciation of our Ladye until Michellmas has with meat and drink by the day —— ivd. and without viijd.

From Michellmas to the Annunciation —— iiid. and without vijd.

The best sorte of women servants shall not have more by the yeare than with a liverye —— xxjs. and without —— xxvjs viijd.

while “a woman reaping of corne” shall not have “more by the daye then —— vd with meat and drink.”

(Hertfordshire Assessment, 1591).

Every man-servant serving with any person as a Comber of Wooll to have by the yeare —— 40s.

Every such servant being a single man and working by yᵉ pound to have by yᵉ pound —— 1ᵈ.

Every such servant being a marryed man and having served as an apprentice thereto according to the statute to have by yᵉ pound —— 2ᵈ.

(Assessment for Suffolk, 1630).