£12 Margaret Dowe (widdow) holdeth one customary tenement (her eldest son the next heir) rent 7s. 8d.
Among freeholders. Johan Mathew (widow) holdeth one free tenement and one croft of land thereto belonging ... containing three acres and a half and renteth 3d.
(Stones, Jolley. 1628. From a List of Copyholders in West & S. Haningfield, Essex.)
[100]. Taylor. (Randall), Discourse of the Growth of England, etc., p. 96, 1689.
[101]. Pepys, Vol. IV, p. 428. 14 July, 1667.
[102]. Hist. MSS. Miss. Com. Var. Coll., Vol. I. p. 170.
[103]. A comparison of the assessments which have been preserved, in the different counties shows that men’s earnings varied in the hay harvest from:—
4d. and meat and drink, or 8d. without, to
8d. and meat and drink, or 1s. 4d. without
and in the corn harvest from:—