 Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing...  The Economic History of England - Page 97by Ephraim Lipson - 1915Full view - About this book
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 440 pages
...people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they receive excessive wages," etc., etc. and requiring workmen to serve in their accustomed place. About... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 436 pages
...people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they receive exc-ssive wages," etc., etc. ' Namely, those wages which had been paid in the 20th vear of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1286 pages
...people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they nuy receive excessive wages." The workmen and servants were practically aware of the natural law which... | |
 | Robert Freke Gould - 1883 - 298 pages
...people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not...beg in idleness than by labour to get their living." 1. Every man and woman, free or bond, able in body, and within the age of threescore years, not living... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1883 - 146 pages
...peoplej and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages.' It is to be observed that the recital in the statute is purely the masters' statement of the case,... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 1044 pages
...Statute of Labourers was probably directed, which, although speaking about " many seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages," yet mentions that others are " rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get a living."... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 548 pages
...Statute of Labourers was probably directed, which, although speaking about " many seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages," yet mentions that others are " rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get a living."... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 pages
...people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages." The workmen and servants were practically aware of the natural law which regulates wages — their... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1886 - 472 pages
...people and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages. ... Be it therefore enacted . . . that every man or woman, of whatsoever condition, free or bond, able... | |
 | 1888 - 920 pages
...the demand for labour naturally led working classca to insist on lu, .'.IT wages, and there were " some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living." The statute reciting these facts, and the "Insta especially of ploughmen and su ch labourers, " enacted... | |
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