 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 стор.
...23d Edward Third, is rather curious, showing even at that time a spirit of combination. It states — "Because a great part of the people, and especially...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 526 стор.
...The lawgivers determined the contrary.* The Statute of Labourers, 23rd Edward III., says : — •" Because a great part of the people, and especially...will not serve unless they receive excessive wages." They were therefore to be compelled to serve, and they were to serve at the same wages which they had... | |
 | Charles Manley Smith - 1860 - 622 стор.
...view of compelling workmen and labourers to serve for reasonable wages. This ordinance recites that " because a great part of the people, and especially...the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness,... | |
 | 1863 - 430 стор.
...to be within the compass of an Act of Parliament, and therefore after the following preamble:— " Because a great part of the people, and especially...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 464 стор.
...principles. The lawgivers determined the contrary.* The Statute of Labourers, 23rd Edward III., says : — " Because a great part of the people, and especially...will not serve unless they receive excessive wages." They were therefore to be compelled to serve, and they were to serve at the same wages which they had... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 560 стор.
...without any of those attempts to conceal a real motive which modern legislation sometimes resorts to : " Because a great part of the people, and especially...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages." The workmen and servants weite practically aware of the natural law which... | |
 | James Kellaway Colling - 1874 - 244 стор.
...one of the principal reasons.* For, according to a statute of 1349, 23 Edward III., it is stated that "a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, whereby many demand excessive wages, and will not work." In making the additions to Windsor Castle,... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 436 стор.
...proclamation forbidding the payment of more than customary wages,3 1 Rogers, Hist, of Agr. and Prices. 9 " Because a great part of the people, and especially...scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they receive exc-ssive wages," etc., etc. ' Namely, those wages which had been paid in the 20th vear of King and... | |
 | Louise Creighton - 1876 - 266 стор.
...The preamble of this statute gives us in a few words a vivid picture of the times. It states that " a great part of the people, and especially of workmen...pestilence. Many, seeing the necessity of masters and the great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages; and some are... | |
 | Charity Organisation Society (London, England) - 1876 - 726 стор.
...1349), the preamble of which states that — "because a " great part of the people, and especially workmen and " servants, late died of the pestilence,...necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will Welsh — * Givcstivr, an unbidden guest, t Cymmorth, help, assistance. " not serve unless they may... | |
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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... 
