Rules to Be Observed by Miners at Wollaton, Notts
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| Date | 1600 |
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| City and country of origin | Wollaton, England |
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Entry
[Hist. MSS. Com. MSS. of Lord Middleton, pp. 169-70.] The stevers' (sic) charges. This is our master's commandment that all you stovers of the feild shalle make your just acount unto your undermen everye nowne and every nyght what you have gett and sould. For every tyme that you do mys, you must losse iij s. iiij d.
And for every bourdenne of colles that you do sowfer to be borne from the feild you must losse xij d. And for every bordenne of wood the like xiij d. And that you shale make just messeures betwene the lord and the countre, to make to every halfe rooke ix cor-fulle, and to every three-quarters xiij cor-fulle, and to every whole rooke xviij cor-fulle of just and good messeure without fraud, deseate or guile, as you will answere at your perille.
And if aney one be takene with aney of the pit candels bearing whome to his house, iij s. iiij d.
And if ane one be takene with ane of the pit towles in his howse, to losse iij s. iiij d. And if aney one be taken cuttinge of aney of the pit rowpes or with aney in his howse, to lowse vj s. viij d. And if any one be taken knotinge in of ane worke, it is fellonie ; the must b[e] used at the lordes plesure. And for every of these defaultes whosoever he is, it must be taken up of his wages the next Seterday after. More, if aney mann do take ane of the lordes money without the comand of him or his offe[ce]res, to losse x s. and so to departte the towne and the feyld.
