| Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 432 pages
...proclamation forbidding the payment of more than customary wages, 3 1 Rogers, Hist, of Agr. and Prices. 2 " Because a great part of the people, and especially...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they receive excessive wages," etc., etc. and requiring workmen to serve in their accustomed place. About... | |
| Louise Creighton - 1876 - 266 pages
...The preamble of this statute gives us in a few words a vivid picture of the times. It states that " a great part of the people, and especially of workmen...pestilence. Many, seeing the necessity of masters and the great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages; and some are... | |
| Charity Organisation Society (London, England) - 1876 - 726 pages
...1349), the preamble of which states that — "because a " great part of the people, and especially workmen and " servants, late died of the pestilence,...necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will Welsh — * Givcstivr, an unbidden guest, t Cymmorth, help, assistance. " not serve unless they may... | |
| Charles Knight - 1880 - 1286 pages
...sometimes resorts to : " Be. iii. cart ii. D. IQI. STATUTE OF LABOURERS; SCALE OF WAGES. 523 cause a great part of the people, and especially of workmen...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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1881 - 688 pages
...motive which modern legislation sometimes resorts to : " Be• Fccdcra, vol. iii, part ii. p. 191. cause a great part of the people, and especially of workmen...regulates wages, — their dependence upon the number of labourers seeking employment. The government set their ordinances in opposition to that natural law.... | |
| Robert Freke Gould - 1883 - 298 pages
...necessity of the regulations embodied in this Ordinance is thus vindicated in the preamble : — " 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." 1. Every man and woman,... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1883 - 146 pages
...Statute of Labourers. The preamble of this ordinance recites that because ' a great part of the peoplej and especially of workmen and servants, late died...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
...that the preamble to the Statute of Labourers was probably directed, which, although speaking about " many seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity...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
...that the preamble to the Statute of Labourers was probably directed, which, although speaking about " many seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity...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 - 542 pages
...preamble to the Statute of Labourers was probably directed, which, although speaking about " manyseeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants,...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."... | |
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