grant of, by charter, 97


Wages, allowances in aid of, 646, 656;
assessment of, under Statutes of Artificers, 314, 316, 325, 328, 329, 341-343, 345-353, 356-7, 359, 543, 546-7, 554, 576, 577, 631-2;
do., abandoned, 576-7, 656;
do., draft bill in House of Commons for, 336-341;
do., petitions and requests for, 356-7, 361;
do., under Spitalfields Act, 544, 547-551, 558;
conspiracies to raise, 139, 140, 196;
demand of excessive, 139, 140, 164-174, 176, 314, 324, 360, 361;
depression of, 188, 314, 357, 358, 359, 507, 521, 590, 605;
do., in cotton industry, 500, 501;
in colonies, 315, 360;
maximum, 315, 554;
maximum, fixed by Statute, 153, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 624n.;
minimum, 315, 316, 342, 544;
do., bill in House of Commons for, 554-568;
proclamation of, by justices, under Stat. 13 Richard II, 323n., 324;
proposals for a sliding scale of, for agricultural labourers, 552-53;
rates of, fixed by journeymen combinations, 620-622, 623, 624, 630, 637, 638;
regulation of, by towns, 280, 282, 284, 296, 316;
do., by wages boards, 544

Wages boards, advocated, 596, 597;
in Scotland, 597

Wales, Council of, 429, 430

Wardpenny, 80

Wardship and marriage (see Feudal)

Wards and Liveries, Court of, 21, 670

Waste (see Commons)

Watchmakers, resolutions of, on apprenticeship, 588

Water power, 592;
in woollen industry, 482

Weavers Act (1555), 320

Weavers, Cotton, journeymen, petition of, to House of Commons, 500;
hand-loom, proposals for wages boards by, 596, 597

Weights and measures, 132, 154, 155, 214, 248, 388;
assize of (see Assizes)

Women, employment of, in agriculture, 7, 8, 173, 177, 178, 329, 346, 347, 547;
in coal mines, 598, 599;
in woollen industry, 350, 483;
suggestions for employment of, in colonies, 436

Wool, 55, 265, 282, 284, 303;
export of, 179-185, 187, 193, 407;
growers, 355, 483;
merchants, 132, 355, 484, 487 (see also Staple and Staplers);
price of, 407;
Spanish, 431;
do., import of, 494;
do., patent to import, 441;
do., worked in England, 492

Woolcombers, benefit clubs of, 626

Woollen Cloth Industry, 154, 183, 184, 187, 188, 265, 282, 284, 357-360, 383, 399, 432, 503;
apprenticeship in, 499, 500;
do., abolished, 587, 587n;
condition of, in eighteenth century, 479, 482-487, 492-495, 545, 546;
credit trading in, 493-95;
dyeing in, 141-144;
fraudulent workmanship in, 432;
geographical distribution of, 484;
hiring of looms in, 320, 321;
limitation of number of looms, to clothiers, 318, 321, 344;
organisation of, in seventeenth century, 354;
state regulation of, 317-322, 330, 331, 336-341, 343, 344, 345, 350, 351, 352, 357-360, 382, 383, 398, 399, 402-404, 426, 454-461;
in Ireland, discouraged by Strafford, 471

Woollen Cloth Trade, internal trade in, 399, 404, 468-470;
export trade in, 198, 301, 398, 399, 402-404, 421, 426, 427, 431-434, 438, 440, 441, 446, 447, 450, 453-461, 469;
do., patent for, 443;
foreign criticism of English cloth, 319, 587

Workhouses, 369-372, 380, 586, 646, 648, 649;
character of work provided in, 369, 370, 657-659;
mortality in, 659, 660

Workhouse Test Act (1722), 650

Working Men's Association, address of, to Queen Victoria, 641

Wreck of sea, 37, 40, 122

Writs, 39, 101;
return of, 37;
service of carrying, 28, 63;
of Chancery, 48;
of Jewry, 44, 48;
of certiorari, 202;
of corpus cum causa, 200;
of precipe, 36;
of quo warranto, 474;
of recordari facias, 236;
of replevin, 236;
of right, the little, 55, 91;
of scire facias, 474;
of subpoena, 186, 244, 277


Yarn, imported from Ireland, 485, 486

Yeomanry organisations, 280, 300, 302
(see also Craft-gilds, Journeymen)

Young, Arthur, his account of farming in Norfolk, 523, 530, 534;
his advocacy of enclosures, 524;
his criticism of commissioners' methods, 536, 537