 | George Chalmers - 1812 - 534 pages
...be seen in the Statute of Labourers, that was enacted, in 1 349. This law recites — " That whereas a great part of the people, and especially of workmen,...servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing <he necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve, unless they receive excessive... | |
 | 1818 - 582 pages
...be longer endured. [542 The Statute of Labourers, enacted in 1349, recites " That whereas a créât part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing1 the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of serrants, will not serve, unless I hey receive... | |
 | 1826 - 488 pages
...people, especially of workmen and servants, lately died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessities of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages," and it therefore enacts, " that every man and woman who have not of their own the means to maintain... | |
 | William Sandys - 1829 - 80 pages
...eyes, we must consider the difference of times and the then value of money. •48 nation. It states, " Because a great part of " the People, and especially...not serve " unless they may receive excessive wages, " and some rather willing to beg in idleness, " than by labour to get their living ; we con" sidering... | |
 | Esq. James Birch Sharpe - 1841 - 236 pages
...least the ostensible cause, and the evils with singular brevity ; it is as follows :—• f ' Because great part of the people, and especially of workmen...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living ; we, considering the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 524 pages
...PEOPLE. 887 because a great part of the people, and especially uf workmen and servants, had lately died of the pestilence, " many, seeing the necessity...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living." Those whom the statute... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1846 - 472 pages
...of Labourers," passed in Edward the Third's reign, which declared, in the same breath, that though " many, seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages," others are " rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living." These, however,... | |
 | Horace Greeley, Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1847 - 94 pages
...servants, had lately died of the pestilence;" and that " many, seeing the necessity of masters, and the great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages; and some are willing to heg in idleness rather than hy lahor to get their living," &c. Just at that... | |
 | 1852 - 548 pages
...distress of the poor. VOL. IX. X recites, " Because many, seeing the necessity of masters, and the great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living; we, considering the... | |
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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... 
