 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1886 - 472 pages
...of wages, against which it then proceeds with equal precision to legislate. " Because," it states, " a great part of the people and especially of workmen...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages. ... Be it therefore enacted . . . that every man or woman, of whatsoever condition, free or bond, able... | |
 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1887 - 138 pages
...wages and prices, Memorialt. 253. ' "Because a great part of the people, and especially of workingmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing the necessity of masters, will not serve unless they receive excessive wages," etc. Stat. 1-307-311. man, between the two different... | |
 | American Economic Association - 1888 - 652 pages
...wages and prices, Memorials. 253. 2"Because a great part of the people, and especially of workingmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing the necessity of masters, will not serve unless they receive excessive wages," etc. Stat. I-307-311. 96 Medioeval Guilds of England.... | |
 | William Denton - 1888 - 358 pages
...spinners, and clothiers. The reason which called for these acts of parliament is stated to have been because " a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, had late died of the pestilence," and that many who had availed themselves of the " necessities of... | |
 | Charles William Stubbs - 1894 - 310 pages
...The wages of labour rose. Complaints were soon laid before the feudal Parliament that many labourers, "seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they receive excessive wages." The celebrated " Statute of Labourers" is accordingly passed compelling labourers... | |
 | Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1894 - 328 pages
...especially of the workmen have lately died of the Pestilence, many, seeing the necessity of masters and the great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages," and considering the "grievous incommodities " which from the lack especially of plowmen and such laborers... | |
 | Albert Stickney - 1897 - 232 pages
...father in Christ, William, by the same grace archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, greeting. Because a great part of the people, and especially...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, (2) and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living ; we, considering... | |
 | Sir George Nicholls - 1898 - 498 pages
..." was passed. It begins by stating, that n7." " Because a great part of the people, and especially workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence,...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living " ; and then it goes... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 652 pages
...especially of workmen and servants, have lately died in the pestilence, many seeing the necessities of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and others preferring to beg in idleness rather than by labour to get their living; we, considering... | |
 | Dr. H. J. Nieboer - 1900 - 510 pages
...by the king with the advice of certain prelates and nobles, of which the preamble states that, Bmany seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants will not serve unless they get excessive wages", and that consequently 1) Cunningham, 1. op 305. 2) Ashley, II p. 277. 3) See... | |
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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... 
