Every master tucker, following his labour duly and painfully, shall take of wages by the week not above [blank], and every ordinary workman of the same trade, following his labour as aforesaid, shall take of wages by the week not above [blank]. Every woman spinner's wage shall be such as, following her labour duly and painfully, she may make it account to [blank] the day.
James Mervin.
Wm. Eyre.
Edw. Penruddock.
Jasper More.
John Dauntsey.
Alexander Tutt.
Jo. Ernlle.
James Ley.
Henry Martyn.
[289] A mistake for fifth (see No. 6).
13. Assessment Made by the Justices of Wiltshire, Dealing Mainly with Textile Workers [Hist. MSS. Com., Vol. I, pp. 167-168, The Records of Quarter Sessions in the County of Wilts], 1605.
Wiltshire.—The declaration of the general rates of wages of servants, labourers, artificers, handycraftsmen, weavers, spinsters, workmen and workwomen within the foresaid county assessed and rated by the Justices of the Peace of the foresaid county, whose hands and seals are hereunder to these presents set, at the General Sessions of the Peace of the said county holden at the Devizes in the said county the ninth day of April in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord James by the grace of God, etc...., according to the Statutes in that case made and provided.
Imprimis, that the rates of the wages of servants, labourers, artificers, and handicraftsmen within the said county shall continue and be for this year now next ensuing in all respects as they were rated and assessed the last year next before.
Item that the rates of wages of the weavers and spinsters shall be for this year now next ensuing as follows, viz.:—
| A weaver for weaving a cloth of 700 | viis. | |
| And for every beer[290] above 700 and under 800 | iid. | |
| 700 | A spinner for spinning of a pound of these sorts of warp shall have | iid. |
| And for a pound of abb spinning | id. ob. | |
| Item for weaving of a cloth of 800 | viiis. | |
| And for every beer above 800 and under 900 | iid. ob. | |
| 800 | A spinner for spinning of a pound of these sorts of warp shall have | iid. ob. |
| And for a pound of abb | id. ob. | |
| For a weaving of a broad listed white of this making | ixs. | |
| For the hanking thereof | xiid. | |
| Item for weaving of a cloth of 900 | ixs. | |
| For every beer above 900 and under 1000 | iiid. | |
| 900 | A spinner for spinning of a pound of these sorts of warp shall have | iid. ob. q. |
| For the spinning of a pound of abb of that sort | id. ob. q. | |
| And for every pound of abb wrought into a cloth above 54 and not above 60 | xiid. | |
| Item for weaving of a cloth of 1000 | xs. | |
| For every beer above 1000 and under 1100 | iiiid. | |
| 1000 | For every pound of abb above 54 and not above 60 | xiid. |
| For every pound of abb above 60 | xvid. | |
| A spinner for spinning of a pound of these sorts of warp shall have | iiid. ob. | |
| And for a pound of abb | iid. | |
| Item for weaving of a cloth of 1100 being narrow listed with 54li of abb | xiis. | |
| For every beer above 1100 and not above 1200 | vid. | |
| For every pound of abb above 54 and not above 60 | xviiid. | |
| 1100 | For every pound of abb above 60 pound | xxd. |
| and | A spinner for spinning a pound of these sorts of warp shall have | iiiid. |
| 1200 | And for a pound of abb | iid. ob. |
| For weaving of the broad listed whites of the three sorts of cloth next before mentioned | xiiis. vid. | |
| For the hanking of them | xiid. |
| James Mervin. | |
| Wa. Longe. | |
| Wm. Eyre. | W. Blacker. |
| Jo. Ernele. | Edw. Rede. |
| Jaspar More. | Henry Martyn. |
| Edward Penrudock. | G. Tooker. |
| H. Sadler. | Anth. Hungerford. |
| Jo. Dauntesey. | La. Hyde. |
| John Hungerford. | |
| Wm. Bayles. | |
| Jo. Warneford. |
[290] For the meaning of "beer "and "abb" see notes to document No. 8.