 | George Chalmers - 1812 - 534 sider
...the people, and especially of workmen, and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing <he necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants,...will not serve, unless they receive excessive wages, some being rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living : " Considering, therefore,... | |
 | 1826 - 488 sider
...people, especially of workmen and servants, lately died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessities of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages," and it therefore enacts, " that every man and woman who have not of their... | |
 | William Sandys - 1829 - 80 sider
...states, " Because a great part of " the People, and especially of Workmen " and Servants, late died of the Pestilence, " many seeing the necessity of Masters,...scarcity of Servants, will not serve " unless they may receive excessive wages, " and some rather willing to beg in idleness, " than by labour to get... | |
 | Esq. James Birch Sharpe - 1841 - 236 sider
...:—• f ' Because great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many, seeing the necessity of masters...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 524 sider
...887 because a great part of the people, and especially uf workmen and servants, had lately died of the pestilence, " many, seeing the necessity of masters,...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1846 - 472 sider
...of Labourers," passed in Edward the Third's reign, which declared, in the same breath, that though " many, seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages," others are " rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 554 sider
...to those principles. The lawgivers determined the contrary.* The Statute of Laborers, Edward III., says : " Because a great part of the people, and especially...below the ratio of accumulated capital seeking to employ labor. Under the natural laws of demand and supply, the scarcity of laborers and the excess... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 552 sider
...resorts to : " Because a great part of the people, ana especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters,...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages." The workmen and servants were practically aware of the natural law which... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857 - 578 sider
...states — "Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters,...great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in' idleness than by labor to get their... | |
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Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages... 
