Accounts of wages

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Title
Accounts of wages
Reference
Add. 27445, f. 28
Date
31 August 1467
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol IV, item 676
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume IV'

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ABSTRACT1

 

     A small slip of paper close written on both sides with accounts of wages.
In the margin on one side is the name John Braham, with the memorandum,
’Thys wrytynge, made the iiijth yere of Kynge Edward the iiijth, and in the
monyth of Novembre, wytnessez of the wagez that my master payith to his
men.’ A blank seems to have been left below this at first, but it was after-
wards filled up in a different hand: ‘Memorandum that the ve yer of Kyng
Edward the iiije I rekenyd wyth my master at Stoke; and on the v. day of
Aprylle for the yerys that I have be wyth my mastyr, whesche shal be at
Hocke Monday next cumyng ve yer and an halfe; for the whesche yerys I
have reseyvyd at sondery tymeys vli. and iiijs., and thys seyd v. day I reseyvyd
of my master v. marcs.’

     On the other side, in the first hand, is an account extending from the 11th
April, 5 Edw. IV. (1465) to the last day of August, 7 Edw. IV. (1467), of
payments to a female named Rose,2 for wages by ‘my master,’ Braham and
Thorpe. These sums vary from 3s. 4d. to 8s. 4d., at a time; but there are
also two items for presents made to her, viz. for 4 ells of Holland cloth at
8½d the ell, 2s. 10½d., and for a pair of hosen, 12d. On the 7th Oct.
6 Edw. IV. (1466) it is said, ‘My master toke her for wages at Stoke, 5s.’

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     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.]

     2 It appears by other letters that she was a servant ‘dwelling before Mrs. Paston’s
gate.’

 

 

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