Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- TO MY PARENTS
- Preface
- Part I Servants and labourers
- Part II Form and practice
- Part III Change
- Appendix 1 ‘Servants’ and ‘labourers’ in early modern English
- Appendix 2 Age and sex
- Appendix 3 Legal control of mobility
- Appendix 4 Statute Sessions and hiring fairs in England, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
- Appendix 5 The Holland, Lincolnshire, Statute Sessions
- Appendix 6 Compulsory service
- Appendix 7 Speculations on the origin of the institution
- Appendix 8 The 1831 census
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix 5 - The Holland, Lincolnshire, Statute Sessions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- TO MY PARENTS
- Preface
- Part I Servants and labourers
- Part II Form and practice
- Part III Change
- Appendix 1 ‘Servants’ and ‘labourers’ in early modern English
- Appendix 2 Age and sex
- Appendix 3 Legal control of mobility
- Appendix 4 Statute Sessions and hiring fairs in England, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
- Appendix 5 The Holland, Lincolnshire, Statute Sessions
- Appendix 6 Compulsory service
- Appendix 7 Speculations on the origin of the institution
- Appendix 8 The 1831 census
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The survival of the records of the Statute Sessions in Holland, Lincolnshire, can be attributed to the administrative zeal of Holland JPs in the mid eighteenth century. My ‘discovery’ of them is owed to the efficiency of the Lincolnshire Archives Office and directly to Miss Judith Cripps.
I could not find the original order that led to the deposit of the constable's records of each Statute Session in central Quarter Sessions for Holland, but it was this that led to their preservation. The lists begin in 1767. At that date, Holland Quarter Sessions minutes contain many orders to proclaim assessed wages (Jan. 1766; April 1766; March 1767, etc.) but none to deposit the lists with Quarter Sessions. In January 1777, however, Quarter Sessions in Boston ordered:
that the chief constable of the Wapentake of Elloe be allowed and paid by the Treasurer of the said Wapentake the sum of eight pounds and eight shillings for their attendance and holding the statutes within the Wapentake of Elloe for the last years … And further that the Chief Constables for the Wapentake of Elloe be allowed the sum of two pounds and two shillings for their attending and holding every statute for the said Wapentake and that they do not for the future receive or take any other fee or gratuity whatsoever from any servant or master on account of the said statutes. […]
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- Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England , pp. 164 - 165Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1981