(Hertfordshire Assessment, 1591).
Every man-servant serving with any person as a Comber of Wooll to have by the yeare —— 40s.
Every such servant being a single man and working by yᵉ pound to have by yᵉ pound —— 1ᵈ.
Every such servant being a marryed man and having served as an apprentice thereto according to the statute to have by yᵉ pound —— 2ᵈ.
(Assessment for Suffolk, 1630).
[122]. Paid to a shovele man for 2 days to shovell in the cart rakes, 2s. (Hertford Co. Rec., Vol. I, p. 233, 1672.) 2½ days’ work of a labourer, 2s. 6d. (ibid., p. 130, 1659).
For one daies work for one labourer, 1s. (Strood Churchwarden’s Acc. p. 182, 1662.)
pᵈ. to James Smith for one days’ work thatching about Widow Barber’s house, she being in great distress by reason she could not lie down in her bed and could get no help to do the same. 1s. 2d. (Cratford Parish Papers, p. 152, 1622.) Thatchers were paid more than ordinary labourers, being generally assessed at the same rate as a carpenter, or a mower in the harvest.
July 15, 1676. Tho. Scott for workeinge hay 2 dayes, 4d.
Tho. Greaves youngeʳ for workeinge hay 2 dayes, 4d.