2s. 6d. per hundred.
a farm carpenter 1s. 6d. per day.
or, 'I finding him,' 1s. per day.
common labourers, generally 1s. per \
day; sometimes, but less frequently, > in 1849, 2s.
9d. per day /
threshing wheat, 16d. per quarter in 1849, 3s.
mowing, from 1s. to 1s. 8d. per acre in 1849, 3s. 6d.
mowing oats, 1s. 3d. per acre in 1849, 2s. 6d.
mowing clover, 1s. 6d. per acre in 1849, 2s. 6d.
hayers, 2s. and 2s. 6d. per week in 1849, 6s.
reaping, 2s. per acre in 1849, 10s. to 14s.
sheep shearing, 1s. per score in 1849, 2s. 6d.
hedging 2-1/2d. per rod in 1849, 4d.
hoeing, 6d. per acre in 1849, 4s.
women 8d. per day in 1849, 1s., and 1s. 4d.
boys, 4d. per day in 1849, 6d. and 3d.
making faggots, 18d. and 20d. per hundred; in 1849, 3s."

A reference to the household-books of the Derings, in East Kent,
gives the same results.

The wages given by Sir Roger Twysden to his household servants at
this time were:--

"Housekeeper 5l. per annum.
maids 2l. 10s. and 3l.
men 5l. 10s., 5l. and 4l."

{226}I have added, in most instances, the prices now paid to
labourers in these parts, having obtained my information from the
farmers of the neighbourhood.

The price of butchers' meat at present, in this neighbourhood, is
from 6d. to 7 1/2d. per lb.; by wholesale, 3s. 6d. or 3s. 8d. per
stone.

As far, then, as the relative prices of wages and meat can guide us,
the labourer, in these parts, was as well able to purchase meat in
1670 as he is now.

Unhappily for him, the imprudence of early marriage entailing upon
him the charge of a family, he is precluded from the indulgence in
fresh meat, except as an occasional treat. Cheese and bacon,
however, are still within his reach. The improvidence of early
marriage rarely occurred in former days, and palpably, if our
Kentish labourers lived _entirely_ on oats and rye, it was not
of _necessity_ that they did so. I am inclined to think that,
in many of the instances given above, especially in haying and
harvest, provisions of some sort were found by the employer, over