In the 11th of Henry the Seventh (c. 22) there was a new
Statute for the rating of Servants wages and the hire of
day-laborers, which in a manner doth agree with the 23rd of Henry
the Sixth: but I find this almost only difference between them,
that by the 23rd of Henry the Sixth, the Meat and Drink of the
Day-labourer is valued but three halfpence, but by the 11th of
Henry the Sixth, the Pound of sterling Gold being (then brought
from 16l. 13s. 4d. to 22 l. 10s. 0d. and the silver from 30s to
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