Wages

Wages Assessment Essex 1651
As printed in Michael Dalton's Country Justice 1655

Essex

The particular Rates of Wages of all manner of Artificers, Labourers, and Servants, as well by the Day with Meat and Drink, and without, as also by the whole yeer, and in gross, or by taske : Made as set forth at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden at Chelmsford in the said County Apr. 8 1651, by the Justices of Peace there assembled, according to a Statute made 29 Eliz. having a special regard and consideration to the prises at this time of all kinde of Victualls and Apparel, both Linnen and Woollen, and all other necessary charges wherewith Artificers, Labourers, and Servants have been more grievously charged with, then in times past.

			By the day from mid-March to mid-September			By the day from mid-September to mid-March			By the whole year
		with meat and drink		without meat and drink	with meat and drink		without meat and drink	Wages		Livery
Masons	A Master free Mason A Master rough Mason having three under him Servants and Apprentices above the age of 14 and under 18	12d 10d 4d		18d 17d 10d	10d 8d 3d		16d 14d 7d	4li 3li 30s		10s 10s 8s
Carpentors and Sawyers	A Master Carpenter having foure under his charge Their Journey-men and Servants above 18 and under 24 Servants and Apprentices above 14 and under 24 A Master Sawyer His Labourer Palers Ryvers of Pale and Clapboard and Lathe A Mill-wright A Plow-wright and Cart-wright Cowper	12d 8d 6d 10d 8d 8d 10d 12d 10d 10d		18d 14d 12d 16d 14d 12d 18d 18d 18d 16d	10d 6d 6d 8d 8d 8d 8d 10d 8d 6d		16d 12d 10d 14d 12d 12d 16d 16d 16d 14d	4li 50s 24s 4li 10s 4li 4li 4li		10s 8s 8s 10s 8s 10s 10s
Shipwrights	A Master Ship-wright having four under him An Hewer or common Ship-wright An able Clencher An able Holder A Master Calker A Calker labouring by tide A mean Calker	16d 10d 10d 8d 14d 10d 9d		2s 8d 18d 14d 2s 18d 16d	12d 8d 8d 7d 10d 8d 8d		16d 14d 14d 12d 6d 14d 14d
Joyner, and Carver	A Master Joyner or Carver Servants and Apprentices above 18 and under 24 Servants and Apprentices above 14 and under 24	10d 8d 6d		18d 14d 9d	8d 6d 5d		16d 12d 8d	4li 3li 10s 33s 4d		10s 10s 6s
Bricklayer, Tylers, Playsterers, and Shinglers.	A Master Bricklayer and Tyler, Playsterer, and Shingler Second Bricklayers, Tylers, and Slaters, above 16 and under 24 Servants and Apprentices above 12 and under 24	10d 8d 6d		18d 16d 10d	8d 6d 5d		16d 14d 8d	4li 2li		10s 10s
Makers of Brick Tile, Burners of Lyme, Ashes, and Wood	Makers of Brick and Tile, Burners of Wood-ashes and Lyme Their Servants and Labourers	8d 6d		16d 11d	6d 5d		12d 10d	3li 30s		10s 10s
Plumber and Glasier	A Plumber and Glasier Their Servants and Apprentices of the age of 14 and under 24	10d 6d		16d 10d	8d 5d		14d 8d	3li 5s 30s 4d		10s 6s 4d
Layers of Roods and Thatchers, Common Labourers	A Master Layer or Thatcher Their Servants Fellers, and makers of Wood, Ditches, Hedges and Threshers, and all other common Labourers the time of Harvest excepted	10d 8d 8d		16d 13d 14d	8d 6d 6d		14d 12d 12d	3li 50s 3li 5s		10s 10s 10s
Gardeners	Gardeners Scavel-men or Marsh-men The man Haymaker The woman Haymaker Weeders of Corn Mowers of Corn and Grasse A Fallower	8d 10d 8d 5d 4d 10d 6d		16d 18d 12d 10d 9d 18d 15d	7d 8d		12d 15d	3li 3li 10s		10s
Reapers	The man Reaper The woman Reaper	12d 8d		22d 14d
Clothiers, with other men of Science or occupation Kembers	The best servant Clothier being Journeyman The best Journeyman weaver able to take and leave his work as well in Cogshall and such places where fine Clothes are made as elsewhere The second Journeyman Weaver and Clothier A Journeyman Kember in Coxhall above the age of 24 K mbing and drawing everyday 5 li warp Housholders their kembing and drawing by task for every warp with meat and drink A Weaver being a housholder, weaving by the piece in great as he can agree with the Clothier A Journeyman Tucker or Fuller, and Sherman, and Dyer							3li 3li 30s 3li 6d 50s		10s 16s 8s 10s 10s
	Taylers and Hoziers	8d		14d	6d		12d	50s		10s
	Shoomakers, Cutlers, Smiths, Farrier, Spurriers, Tanners and Cowpers Millers, Bakers, Brewers, Butchers, and Cooks The second sort of the said Artificers Loaders of Corn and Meal to London							50s 50s 50s 4li		10s 10s 8s 10s
	Knackers, Collermakers, Armourers	9d		18d	8d		14d	6li
Servants of Husbandry	A Bayliff of Husnandry taking charge and able to discharge the same A chief Hinde; the best Ploughman, Carter, Shepherd or Neatherd The second Hinde, Carter, or Servant in Husbandry Apprentice at Husbandry, at meat, drink, and clothes The best woman servant, being a Cook, able to take charge of a Houshold The second woman servant A Dairy maid, or Wash maid A Chambermaid							5li 4li 10s 3li 10s 50s 40s 45s 50s		10s 10s 10s
Artificers and Labourers, by task or in great, without meat and drink
Mowers and Makers of Hay	The mowing of one Acre Grasse after Land measure The well making, clean raking, and cocking of an Acre of Gras ready to carry The reaping or shearing, well binging, cocking, or shoking, of one acre of Wheat, Rye, or Mixtyln The reaping or shearing of an acre of Barley and Bullimong, binding and shocking The reaping, well binding and shocking of an acre of Oats The making of an acre of Pease, Fetches, and Tates									10d 2s 3s 4d 2s 6d 2s 6d 21d
Mowing of Corn	The mowing of an acre of Barley or Oats The following making bands, raking, and laying the same The making and ditching of a rod of new ditch out of the whole ground, four foot wide, three foot deep and one and a half foot in the bottom, double set with quick, and setting an hedge upon it after the rate of 16 foot and a half the rod, with gathering sets for the same The making of a rod of ditch of like breadth and depth, without quick The plashing of every rod of quick hedge The making a rod of an usual hedge, the stuffe laid by The f(s)elling every load of bushes									14d 12d 14d 6d 2d 2d 12d
Felling and making wood	The making of a hundred of Fagots double band The making of a hundred of Fagots single band The making of a thousand Billet The making of a load of Talewood The making of a load of Pole, or other Wood The making of a hundred of Broom or Farres Fagots									2s 6d 20d 18d 8d 6d 22d
Threshing and fanning	Wheat and Rye the quarter Barley and Oats the quarter Beans, Pease, Bullimong and Tares									22d 10d 10d
Sawing	Plank, the hundred, viz. six score Board, the hundred Slitting work the hundred									2s 6d 2s 6d 2s 6d
Riving	Lath, the hundred Pale the hundred Clapboard, the hundred									4d 1d 4s
Paling	The felling cleaving and hewing Pales, Posts, Shores, and Rayls, and setting up of every rod of six foot long Pale, not exceeding seven foot with single Rayle, after the rate of 16 foot and a half to the Pole									2s
Cartwrights	The making of a Plough all new with meat and drink The bodying of a Plough, with meat and drink The heading or bodying of a Plough, with the handle with meat and drink The making of a pair of Cart-wheels, finding himself The hewing of all stuff of a body of a Cart, finding himself The making of the body of a Cart, finding himself The hewing of every gange of Fellyes which contain 12 for wheels The setting on of a Felly, finding himself The hewing and riving of every gange of Spoke Timber, the gange containing 25									1s 6d 10d 12d 8s 20d 3s 6d 1s 6d 8d 1s
Making of Coals	The felling, cutting, and blocking of a dozen Coals, every Coal containing 24 Sacks and every Sack 4 bushels The making of a dozen Coals									2s 4d 2s
Brick and Tylemakers	The digging of the Earth, the striking and burning of every M. Brick, without meat and drink, having straw and all other necessaries laid by The stricking, drying, and setting on Pillar every thousand Tile, without meat and drink The whiting and nealing of every M. Tile, without meat and drink									2s 6d 10d 10d

Fx. per Tho. Gouldesburgh, Cler. Pacis Com. pr xd.

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