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Some Workmen's Wages in 1588
From a statute given at Westminster 24 August 1588
These are wages for hire given "to the best and most skillful workmen, journeymen, and hired servants of any of the companies hereunder named." Masters paying these wages surely make rather more.
Having a special care and regard to the high and very chargeable prices of victuals, fuel, raiment, and apparel both linen and woolen, and also of house rents and other special and accidental charges wherewith artificers and labourers dwelling within the city are very many and sundry times, after their power and substance charged and burdened with the residue of the citizens of the same.
To the best and most skillful workmen, journeymen, and hired servants of any of the companies hereunder named.
Wages by the year, with meat and drink |
Clothworkers | £5 |
Fullers | £5 |
Shearmen | £5 |
Dyers | £6 13s 8d |
Tailor's hosier | £4 |
Drapers, being hosiers | £4 |
Shoemakers | £4 |
Pewterers | £3 6s 8d |
Whitebakers | £4 6s 8d |
Brewers | £10 |
The underbrewer | £6 |
The foredrayman | £6 |
The miller | £6 |
The other draymen | £3 6s 8d |
The tunman | £3 6s 8d |
Alebrewers by the year | £6 |
Alebrewers by the day | 8d |
Saddlers | £4 |
Turners | £4 6s 8d |
Cutlers | £4 6s 8d |
Blacksmiths | £6 |
Curriers | £6 |
Brownbakers | £3 6s 8d |
Farriers | £4 |
Glovers | £3 6s 8d |
Cappers | £4 13s 4d |
Hatmakers & feltmakers | £4 13s 4d |
Butchers | £6 |
Cooks | £6 |
To the workmen, journeymen or hired servants of any companies hereunder named |
Craft | Terms | Wage |
Goldsmiths | With meat and drink, By the year | £5 |
| By the week | 3s 4d |
| By the day | 7d |
| Without meat and drink, By the week | 6s |
| By the day | .12d |
Skinners | With meat and drink, By the year | £4 |
| By the week | 3s 4d |
| By the day | 8d |
| Without meat & drink By the week | 6s |
| By the day | 13d |
Painter stainers | With meat & drink, By the year | £4 |
| By the week | 4s |
| By the day | 9d |
. | Without meat & drinkBy the year | £8 |
| By the week | 6s 8d |
| By the day | 13d |
Linen weavers . | With meat and drink, By the year | £4 |
| By the day | 6d |
| Without meat & drink, By the day | 10d |
Glaziers | With meat & drink, By the day | 9d |
| Without meat & drink, By the day | 13d |
Longbow stringmakers | With meat & drink, By the year | £4 |
| By the day | 8d |
| Without meat & drink, By the day | 12d |
Founders | With meat and drink, By the year | £5 |
| By the day | 12d |
| Without meat & drink, By the day | 16d |
Barbers | With meat and drink, By the year | £3 |
| By the week | 20d |
Carmen (carters & drayers) | With meat and drink, By the week | 2s 6d |
Watermen | With meat and drink, By the year | 4d |
Source:
Aughterson, The English Renaissance
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