 | David Levine - Political Science - 1987 - 268 pages
...Labourers and the more famous, supplemental 1351 Statute of Labourers were made the law of the land because "a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, lately died of the pestilence, many - seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants... | |
 | Albert Beebe White, Wallace Notestein - Constitutional history - 1915 - 558 pages
...The king to the sheriff of Kent, greeting. Because a great part of the people, and especially of 10 workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence,...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labor to get their living; is we, considering the... | |
 | Derek Baker - History - 1995 - 278 pages
...307, trans. C. Stephenson and FG Marcham op. cit., p. 225 The king to the sheriff of Kent, Greeting. Because a great part of the people, and especially...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living; we, considering the... | |
 | Faith Thompson - 1985 - 295 pages
...Labourers with its lament over the "grievous incommodities" through the lack of ploughmen, and how "many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living." The Statute of Treasons,... | |
 | David Levine - Social Science - 2001 - 440 pages
...was proclaimed. Less than two years later, the next Parliament enacted the 1351 Statute of Labourers because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, lately died of the pestilence, many — seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants... | |
 | Angela Kathryn Stout, Richard Alan Dello Buono, William J. Chambliss - Law - 2004 - 444 pages
...is stated: Because great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, later died in pestilence; many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve without excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labour to get their living:... | |
 | Robert E. Goodin, Charles Tilly - History - 2006 - 942 pages
...was proclaimed. Less than two years later, the next Parliament enacted the 1351 Statute of Laborers because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, lately died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants... | |
 | 1870 - 510 pages
...Statute of Laborers, which begins by stating " that because a great part of the people, and especially workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence,...not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness than by labor to get their living," then goes on to direct... | |
 | 644 pages
...Father in Christ, William, by the same Grace Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, Greeting. Because a great part of the People, and especially...Workmen and Servants, late died of the Pestilence, and many (seeing the necessity of Masters, and great Scarcity of Servants) will not serve unless they... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1968 - 652 pages
...the I'D"' king with the advice of certain prelates and nobles, of which the preamble states that " many seeing the necessity of masters and great scarcity of servants will not serve unless they get excessive wages," and that consequently the land can be scarcely tilled. Everyone, free or villan,... | |
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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... 
