Studien zur Geschichte der englischen Lohnarbeiter: mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Veränderungen ihrer Lebenshaltungen, Volume 1

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Page 456 - And also to raise weekly or otherwise (by Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parson, Vicar and other, and of every Occupier of Lands, Houses, Tithes impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal-Mines, or saleable Underwoods in the said Parish...
Page 456 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 300 - He wolde thresshe, and ther-to dyke and delve, For Cristes sake, for every povre wight, Withouten hyre, if it lay in his might.
Page 456 - ... necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and also for the putting out of such children to be apprentices, to be gathered out of the same parish...
Page 440 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc.
Page 337 - Als Adam grub und Eva spann, : wo war denn da der Edelmann...
Page 432 - ... day, that is to say, at every drinking one half hour, for his dinner one hour, and for his sleep when he is allowed to sleep, the which is from the midst of May to the midst of August, half an hour at the most, and at every breakfast one half hour...
Page 430 - Easter, assemble themselves together ; and they (so assembled), calling unto them such discreet and grave persons of the said county, or of the said city or town corporate as they shall think meet, and conferring together respecting the plenty or scarcity of the time, and other circumstances necessarily to be considered...
Page 429 - ... appoint any such woman, as is of the age of twelve years, and under the age of forty years and unmarried and forth of service, as they shall think meet to serve, to be retained or serve by the year, or by the week, or day, for such wages and in such reasonable sort and manner as they shall think meet. And if any such woman shall refuse so to serve, then it shall be lawful for the said Justices of Peace, mayor, or head officers to commit such woman to ward until she shall be bounden to serve,...
Page 326 - ... by the petition of the commonalty, that the said servants having no regard to the said ordinance, but to their ease and singular covetise, do withdraw themselves to serve great men and other, unless they have livery and wages to the double or treble of that they were wont to take the said twentieth year, and before, to the great damage of the great men, and impoverishing of all the said commonalty...

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