Paid for a labourer 3 dayes to hoult the alees and carrying away the weedes, 1s. 6d. (Cromwell Family, Bills and Receipts, Vol. II, p. 233, 1635.)
Jan. 26, 1649. Payd. to John Wainwright for 5 days worke 1s. 8d. [Yorkshire].
(Eyre (Capt. Adam) Dyurnall, p. 117.)
Thos. Hutton, xiiij days work ijs. iiijd, his wyfe xij dayes iiijs. Thos. Hutton xiij dayes at hay vid, his wyfe 4 dayes xvjid. Leonell Bell, xiij dayes about hay, vjs. vjid.
Tho. Bullman the lyke. iiijs. iiijd, Thos. Hutton 4 dayes at mowing corne, xvjid.
Howard Household Book, p. 40-41).
[123]. The dietary in charitable institutions gives an idea of what was considered bare necessity.
(Children’s Diet in Christ Church Hospital, 1704.)
For breakfast, Bread and Beer. For dinner, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, boiled beef and pottage. Monday, milk pottage, Wednesday, furmity. Friday old pease & pottage. Saturday water gruel. For supper bread and cheese or butter for those that cannot eat cheese. Sunday supper, legs of mutton. Wednesday and Friday, pudding pies.
(Stow, London, Book I, p. 182.)