PRICE OF LABOUR LONG AGO
In tho year 1352 haymakers were paid Id a day; a mower of meadows ,'!d a day, or fid an .aero (writes a contributor 10 the Newcastle ‘ Weekly Chronicle’). Reapers of corn in tho first week of August,..2d a .day, in tho second 3d a day, and so on till tho end of August, without meat,_ drink, or any allowance, finding their own tools. For threshing a qu'arter of wheat or rye, 2Jd; a quarter of barley, beans, peas, and oats, ltd. A master carpenter earned -Id a day, other carpenters 2d; a master mason, Id a day; other masons, -'id; and then servants, I'd a day. ’liters, ,ld; and their “knaves,” I£d; I hatchers. dd a day; plasterers ami other works of mud walls, and I heir knaves, in like manner, without meat, or chunk; and ihis from Easter to' .Michaelmas, and from that time less,. according to. the direction of the justices.
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Evening Star, Issue 19931, 30 July 1928, Page 8
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159PRICE OF LABOUR LONG AGO Evening Star, Issue 19931, 30 July 1928, Page 8
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