Re: [Mid] Let's play a game...

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Robin D. Kullick wrote:

}What do you pay them?
}
}Most household servants made roughly L2-L5 per annum. They were paid
}quarterly on Lady Day (Mar.25), St. John's Day (June 24), Michaelmas
}(Sept. 24) and Christmas Day (Dec. 25)
}Sometimes services were paid "in kind" with clothing, food, an amount of
}fish from the stream, amounts of land or firewood to name a few.
}
}}Skilled labourer as ie. a carpenter? He would make roughly L10-12 per
}}annum-ish.
}
}If I understand the equivalency chart you posted, that means that a
}carpenter is making the equivalent of $6,000 a year. How does he live on
}that?

}Things were a lot less expensive in those days and people (even in the
}middle of London) often kept their own livestock for fresh eggs, milk,
}cheese and butter as well as bees for honey and wax to make salves and
}unguents, soaps and candles and gardens full of veggies which were put up
}for winter. This is all in addition to the regular job the hubby kept,
}plus tips from the Nobles (big tippers, most of 'em) and payment in kind
}helped make up for a lot of the monetary lack in pay.

OK, here's a question...what was money used to buy?

Fairfax

From: Alan Terlep <atterlep@oakland.edu>
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Received on Tue Dec 14 16:17:32 1999