[[724]] Statutes, 4 Edw. IV.

[[725]] Unwin, Gilds of London, 139.

[[726]] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 32.

[[727]] Norwich Recs., ii. 278-310.

[[728]] Statutes, 28 Edw. III. Is iron raw material? Much labour has been expended on it before it reaches the market—but the same would apply to corn.

[[729]] e.g. Riley, Mems. of London, 255.

[[730]] Statutes, 11 Hen. VI.

[[731]] Riley, Mems. of London, 308.

[[732]] For an exhaustive examination of all that concerns wages, see the works of Professor Thorold Rogers.

[[733]] From the end of the fifteenth century the gradation of payments to workmen becomes more pronounced, marking the institution of the modern system.