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    Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850
    Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850
    Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850
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    Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850

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      Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 - Various Various

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      Title: Notes & Queries 1850.02.09

      Author: Various

      Release Date: April 7, 2004 [EBook #11929]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES 1850.02.09 ***

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      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

      CONTENTS.

      WAGES IN 17TH AND 19TH CENTURIES.

      Running my eye accidentally through the household book of Sir Roger Twysden, from 1659 to 1670, it occurred to me to make a comparison between the relative prices of meat and wages, as there given, in order to ascertain the position of our peasantry in these parts, at the close of the 17th century. I send you a few extracts, by which it will be seen that, in Kent, at least, our agricultural labourers appear to have been in far better condition than those of the rest of England, who, in Mr. Macaulay’s brilliant work, are represented as living almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats, owing to the exorbitantly high price of meat, as compared with the ordinary scale of wages.

      As to meat, I find the following entries:—

      Through this period we have:—

      "Cheese per load, i.e. 56 lb., at 14s., 11s., 10s., 4d., 9s. 6d."

      The wages of labourers through the same period are entered:—

      A reference to the household-books of the Derings, in East Kent, gives the same results.

      The wages given by Sir Roger Twysden to his household servants at this time were:—

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      I have added, in most instances, the prices now paid to labourers in these parts, having obtained my information from the farmers of the neighbourhood.

      The price of butchers’ meat at present, in this neighbourhood, is from 6d. to 7 1/2d. per lb.; by

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