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 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY or his bailiff may assign to them, and to make good any loss or wilful default due to mishandling or neglect of the cattle. Peirson is obliged to buy all his rye, barley, or malt from his master, at the price obtaining in Bury market, and to accept it in part payment of his wages. The agreement with the husbandman,"' Thomas Palfrey, closely resembles the foregoing, except that Palfrey and his hired man (whose maintenance is to be wholly at Palfrey's expense) are to occupy themselves ' in and about the folding and manuring of the ground and all other their master's works of husbandry and labour whatsoever.' Palfrey's remuneration is to stand at jTS 3J. 4^. in money, and ^ii^ i6s. in house and land rent. He is to have 4 combs of rye at 8^. a comb, and 5 combs of barley at 6s. 8d. a comb at the next harvest. His wife is to malt as much rye as her master requires of her for his own use, ' she having for her pains a comb of rye, the said Paul D'Ewes to find straw and carriage.' The wages of servants and labourers appointed by the justices of peace at Bury Quarter Sessions in 1682 stand at the following rates : — "^ £ 6 s. O o 10 10 2 18 d. O O O O O O A bailifif in husbandry ...... A chief husbandman or carter ..... A second hind or husbandman or common servant above eighteen years ....... A fourth under eighteen years ..... The best hired servants with meat and drink for harvest An ordinary harvest man ...... For Day Labourers A man hay-maker with meat and drink A woman hay-maker .... Man reaper in harvest .... A woman reaper ..... A common labourer at other times ; in summer „ „ „ „ in winter Women and such persons ; weeders. Without meat and drink these wages were doubled. per annum £ o o o o o o o d. 5 3 10 6 6 5 3 At Friston in the south-east of the county in 1684 the payment for such rural labours as setting a hedge was 2d. a rod, for a staked hedge id', a rod."' In 1694 the gardener at the Hall received £^2 a. year. The wages of the men employed in that typically East Anglian labour of cutting sluices and mending forelands and sea-walls were is. 6 J. per day, reed-cutting (for thatch) in the rivers also is. bd. a day."* In 1752"° carpenter's work was paid at is. lod. a day, a bricklayer and his labourer received together 3^. 4^. a day ; a bricklayer and his boy 3/. a day."* The rent of land at Friston at the close of the 17th century stood according to the rotation of crops at Rye ground ......... 3^. 4<^. per acre Pasture and barley ........ los. „ Pasture and rye Pasture and wheat Barley, wheat, pasture Pasture, hemp, or corn. Turnips .... 5^- » 13^- 4^. » 1 01. » lOJ. » lOJ. » '" Harl. MS. 98, fol. 30. '"Ibid. fol. 152. 1J7 '" CuUum, op. cit. 215. •» Add. MS. 22249, fo'- 158- »» Ibid. fol. 264. '" Ibid. fol. 266. '" Ibid. fol. 144. 669