 | George Chalmers - Great Britain - 1812 - 534 pages
...the people, and especially of workmen, and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing <he necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants,...will not serve, unless they receive excessive wages, some being rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living : " Considering, therefore,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Sandys - Freemasonry - 1829 - 80 pages
...states, " Because a great part of " the People, and especially of Workmen " and Servants, late died of the Pestilence, " many seeing the necessity of Masters,...scarcity of Servants, will not serve " unless they may receive excessive wages, " and some rather willing to beg in idleness, " than by labour to get... | |
 | Esq. James Birch Sharpe - Justices of the peace - 1841 - 236 pages
...:—• f ' Because great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing the necessity of masters...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 524 pages
...887 because a great part of the people, and especially uf workmen and servants, had lately died of the pestilence, " many, seeing the necessity of masters,...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their... | |
 | 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 of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages," others are " rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get... | |
 | Charles Knight - Industrial arts - 1856 - 554 pages
...to those principles. The lawgivers determined the contrary.* The Statute of Laborers, Edward III., says : " Because a great part of the people, and especially...below the ratio of accumulated capital seeking to employ labor. Under the natural laws of demand and supply, the scarcity of laborers and the excess... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1856 - 552 pages
...resorts to : " Because a great part of the people, ana especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters,...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages." The workmen and servants were practically aware of the natural law which... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 pages
...states — "Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters,...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in' idleness than by labor to get their... | |
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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... 
