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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... "
The Ashlar - Page 354
edited by - 1857
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An Historical View of the Domestic Economy of G. Britain, and Ireland, from ...

George Chalmers - Great Britain - 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...
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The Literary Panorama and National Register, Volume 7

English literature - 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...
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Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 5

Industrial arts - 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 himself...
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A short view of the history of free-masonry

William Sandys - Freemasonry - 1829 - 80 pages
...little in our 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,...some rather willing to beg in idleness, " than by labour to get their living ; we con" sidering the grievous incommodities, which " of the lack especially...
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An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Office and Title of the Justice of the ...

Esq. James Birch Sharpe - Justices of the peace - 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...and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living ; we, considering the grievous incommodities which of the lack especially...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 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...and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living." Those whom the statute binds to serve when required at certain specified...
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Over-population and Its Remedy, Or, An Inquiry Into the Extent and Causes of ...

William Thomas Thornton - Great Britain - 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,...
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Association Discussed: Or, The Socialism of the Tribune Examined ; Being a ...

Horace Greeley, Henry Jarvis Raymond - Communism - 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 period,...
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c ..., Volume 9

1852 - 544 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...and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living; we, considering the grievous incommodities which of the lack especially...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's ..., Volume 2

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis, Colin Blackburn Baron Blackburn, Great Britain. Court of Exchequer Chamber - Great Britain - 1854 - 1096 pages
...1348-9. This pestilence will be found mentioned in our historians. And in the preamble it is said: " Many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity...and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to gel their living; we considering the grievous incommodities, which of the lack especially...
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