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year. Their ordinary wages in other families maybe about 41. 10s. or perhaps 5l. When they do not change their ſervice, if ſtrangers in the pariſh, care 1s taken to vary their wages every ſix months, to prevent them from acquiring a ſettlement, to which they would be en- titled were they hired for a- year, or were their wages to continue the ſame for that period.

By the month.—In hay-time and harveſt, when hired for a month, they get from 16s. te 24s. and board.

By the day.—When hired by the day in harveſt and hay-time, they receive 8d. or Iod. and viétuals, or Is 3d. or 1s. 6d. without viduals, At other ſeaſons they are paid with 8d. rod. or 1s. a-day. Their times of en- try, and of leaving of work, their hours of labour and of ref, are very various.:

SECT. 2:— Proviſions

ïe is not unuſual to hear people exclaim againít the en- creaſe of luxury, and the alteration that has taken place in the mode of living in their time. The labourer lives as well now as the farmer did forty or fifty years ago 5 the farmer as well as the man of ſmall landed property; and ſo on: And is this in any reſpec to be regretted, or ïs it not much better for them all? But perſons generally cry out moſt loudly againſt the rank immediately be- neath them, without recolle(ing that their own mode has been changed in nearly the ſame propórtion as the one which they are ſo ready to condemn.*

Fifty years ago the price of butcher-meat at Martinmas was from Id. to 2d. a pound in Burton market, and eighty beaſts were ſometimes ſlaughtered in a day, and bought to be ſalted for winter proviſions. From that time, except 2 few at Chriſtmas and at Eaſter, no cattle were killed

* Spencer's Travels, there

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