Wages

11 May 1732
Canterbury, Ap. 26.   At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the Eastern Division of this County on Friday last, the Justices took into consideration the many illegal practices used by servants in husbandry, in order to extort excessive wages from masters, and thereupon, according to direction of the Act of Parliament in that case provided, settled and directed their wages as follows:

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8
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6
3
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0

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1
1

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2
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And whereas servants often neglect or refuse to be retained at the expiration of their terms, till they can extort illegal wages; the Justices of the Peace, to prevent such practices, determine, within their several divisions, to order, that all such single persons as lay at their own hands, and are fit to go to service, or who shall refuse to take the wages as above settled, shall, from time to time be brought before them, in order to be sent to the house of correction, or further punish’d, as the law in such case shall direct. Daily Journal. It is hoped the Magistrates of other Counties will regulate the wages of servants according to the cheapness of the place; for at Canterbury it’s almost as dear living as at London. LE. (Grub-street Journal)