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Page 76
... shillings , in case the lord assents to such a commutation ; to plow half an acre for winter and half an acre for lent - corn , or pay sevenpence ; to wash and shear sheep and lambs , or pay a half penny a day during the time ; to hoe ...
... shillings , in case the lord assents to such a commutation ; to plow half an acre for winter and half an acre for lent - corn , or pay sevenpence ; to wash and shear sheep and lambs , or pay a half penny a day during the time ; to hoe ...
Page 77
... shillings annu- ally . " On the same estate there were nine coterells , or cottars , each holding a cottage , and most of them an acre of land , and paying from one to two shillings a year , besides performing slight services of the ...
... shillings annu- ally . " On the same estate there were nine coterells , or cottars , each holding a cottage , and most of them an acre of land , and paying from one to two shillings a year , besides performing slight services of the ...
Page 78
... shillings for a license to make his son a monk , while Hugh Harcourt , in the follow- ing year , ( 1331 , ) obtains the same privilege for twelve pence . For two shillings John Scolasse obtains a license to betroth Alice , daughter of ...
... shillings for a license to make his son a monk , while Hugh Harcourt , in the follow- ing year , ( 1331 , ) obtains the same privilege for twelve pence . For two shillings John Scolasse obtains a license to betroth Alice , daughter of ...
Page 85
... shilling ; a basin and ewer , at a shilling ; beside some less characteristic effects . Senekworth , however , must have been an official of more than usual opulence and social position . " Owing to the high price of clothing the dress ...
... shilling ; a basin and ewer , at a shilling ; beside some less characteristic effects . Senekworth , however , must have been an official of more than usual opulence and social position . " Owing to the high price of clothing the dress ...
Page 89
... shilling and sixpence per yard . Carters , plowmen , ox - herds , neat - herds , shepherds , and all others employed in husbandry , were to use no kind of cloth but that called black russet , twelve pence per yard . Clothiers were ...
... shilling and sixpence per yard . Carters , plowmen , ox - herds , neat - herds , shepherds , and all others employed in husbandry , were to use no kind of cloth but that called black russet , twelve pence per yard . Clothiers were ...
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Page 16 - Zeboim toward the wilderness. (Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Page 20 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 407 - For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family : 2.
Page 412 - ... the movement of. the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
Page 20 - In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee : and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
Page 20 - Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Page 137 - In the cost of wheat there has been very little change. The average price of the quarter, during the last twelve years of Charles the Second, was fifty shillings. Bread, therefore, such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats.
Page 19 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates : at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it ; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it : lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 187 - ... relations between workmen and masters, or between workmen and workmen, or between masters and masters, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business, whether such combination would or would not, if this Chapter had not been passed, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade.
Page 186 - Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any of the following agreements namely, 1.