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James E. Thorold Rogers, M.P. Six Centuries of
Work and Wages: The History of English Labour. First edition
1884. Eigth ed. (mine) 1906. 591 pp., index.
QUOTE The medieval laborer took very few
holidays. There is a general impression that, previoius to the
Reformation, much of the labourer's time was wasted in the compulsory idleness
of religious festivals. How far this is true in foreign countries, I do
not know, but is certainy not true of medieval England. An employment for
312 days leaves only one holiday besides the Sundays. Walter Henley
reckons the working days of the year as 308, which gives only five holidays.
ENDQUOTE. P. 181 That is the only reference to holidays in the
index.
Keith Wilde
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 9:37
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Subject: [socialcredit] Thorold
Rogers
"I will try to find the reference to public
holidays in the Uk prior to the Industrial Revolution." (William)
It's
from Thorold Rogers or Thorold-Rogers, the great statistician for the Middle
Ages, book entitled "Work and Wages in the Middle Ages" or something like
that.
Michael
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