Wealth And Progress, a Critical Examination of the Wages Question
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(5) That artificers, under which title are enumerated " saddlers, tanners, farriers, shoemakers, tailors, smiths, carpenters, masons, tilers, pargetters, carters, and others," are liable to the same damages.
(6) That food must be sold at reasonable prices.
(7) That alms shall not be given to able bodied laborers.
(8) That any excess of wages, either given or taken, shall be seized for the king's use, etc.* Notwithstanding the fulness and severity of this act, the enforcement of which, we may be... sure, lacked * See Hallara's " History of the Middle Ages,'" Vol. II., p. 310; Rogers's " Work and Wages," p. 228 ; Wade's" History of the English Working Classes," p. g ; " Wealth of Nations," Book I., ch. 11, Part III., p. 141.
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nothing the king and the lords could do, wages rose.
But while imprisonment of laborers served to increase the amount of ungathered crops, it did not prevent the ultimate and permanent rise of wages. In spite of the royal mandate, statute law, and the personal power of the barons, wages rose, as is shown by the bailiffs' rolls for the same year, from fifty to seventy-five per cent, and, in some instances, even more, although at first, in order to harvest their crops and avoid the penalties of the statute, which were, doubtless, for some time at least, mercilessly inflicted, the bailiffs in their entries frequently drew a line through the new price, " fivepence a day," and substituted the legal price, " threepence." * The new prices were soon openly and regularly paid, however, as is seen alike by the bailiffs' rolls and the frequent complaints of employers that the statute was not enforced.
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(5) That artificers, under which title are enumerated " saddlers, tanners, farriers, shoemakers, tailors, smiths, carpenters, masons, tilers, pargetters, carters, and others," are liable to the same damages.
(6) That food must be sold at reasonable prices.
(7) That alms shall not be given to able bodied laborers.
(8) That any excess of wages, either given or taken, shall be seized for the king's use, etc.* Notwithstanding the fulness and severity of this act, the enforcement of which, we may be... sure, lacked * See Hallara's " History of the Middle Ages,'" Vol. II., p. 310; Rogers's " Work and Wages," p. 228 ; Wade's" History of the English Working Classes," p. g ; " Wealth of Nations," Book I., ch. 11, Part III., p. 141.
130 WEALTH AND PROGRESS.
nothing the king and the lords could do, wages rose.
But while imprisonment of laborers served to increase the amount of ungathered crops, it did not prevent the ultimate and permanent rise of wages. In spite of the royal mandate, statute law, and the personal power of the barons, wages rose, as is shown by the bailiffs' rolls for the same year, from fifty to seventy-five per cent, and, in some instances, even more, although at first, in order to harvest their crops and avoid the penalties of the statute, which were, doubtless, for some time at least, mercilessly inflicted, the bailiffs in their entries frequently drew a line through the new price, " fivepence a day," and substituted the legal price, " threepence." * The new prices were soon openly and regularly paid, however, as is seen alike by the bailiffs' rolls and the frequent complaints of employers that the statute was not enforced.
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