 | Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - 1982 - 532 pages
...come to pass that the same law, being duly executed, should banish idleness, advance husbandry, and yield unto the hired person both in the time of scarcity...the time of plenty a convenient proportion of wages. Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present Parliament. . . . ****** [m. Persons unmarried,... | |
 | S. G. Checkland - 1983 - 448 pages
...effect, to apply to wages the doctrine of the 'just price'; they were to set either minima or maxima such as to 'yield unto the hired person, both in the time...time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages'. The difficulty always was that when goods, especially food, were scarce, a rise in money wages simply... | |
 | 1882 - 888 pages
...come to pass that the same law (being duly executed) should banish idleness, advance husbandry, and yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity and in the time of plenty, a con venient proportion of wages." Tbe statute itself contains what is intended to be a complete code... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 pages
...heing duly executed, should hanish idleness, advance hushandry, and yield unto the hired person hoth in the time of scarcity and in the time of plenty a convenient proportion of wages, Be it therefore enacted hy the authority of this present Parliament . . . . . . that no manner of person... | |
 | 1927 - 706 pages
...and amended previous Acts. Its purpose was declared to be to " banish idleness, advance husbandry and yield unto the hired person both in the time of scarcity...time of plenty a convenient proportion of wages ". It was based on the old principle that men should be compelled to work but it contemplated A minimum wage... | |
 | 1927 - 328 pages
...the peace "in great hope that being duly executed it shall banish idleness, advance husbandry, and yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity...time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages" *. As it became stronger, the monarchy enlarged its pretensions, and claimed for itself the sole right... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1817 - 596 pages
...come to pass that the same law (being duly executed) shall banish idleness, advance husbandry, and yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity...time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages." The above act appears to proceed upon the presumption, that persons who could find employment would... | |
 | 1925 - 656 pages
...come to pass, that the same law (being duly executed) should banish idleness, advance husbandry, and yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity,...time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages." 5 £1. < • . 4, preamble. • An interesting account of the hiring system in Yorkshire in 1641 will... | |
 | Paul Davies - 1982 - 144 pages
...to the Preamble to the Act, its purpose was to "banish idleness, advance husbandry, and yield into the hired person, both in the time of scarcity and...time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages". During the years between the middle of the eighteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries, the... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1938 - 656 pages
...duly executed) should banish idleness, advance husbandry, and yield unto the hired person, both hi the time of scarcity, and in the time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages." 5 El. c. 4, preamble. • An interesting account of the hiring system in Yorkshire in 1641 will be... | |
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... yield unto the hired person, both in the time of scarcity and in the time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages. 
