...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,...

...Labourers. Statutes of the Realm, I, quoted in Henderson's Historical Documents of the Middle Ages. Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, lately died of the Pestilence, many seeing the necessity of the masters of great scarcity of servants,...