Word: 8d
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Founder Wykeham, in fact, specified that his students should be "pauperes et indigentes," and set an upper limit of ?3 6s. 8d. on their annual income, but few real "pauperes" ever got in. For centuries, most of the appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head...
...First was in Massachusetts Bay Colony, where a few fines were assessed against employers who violated the Act of 1633. The Act set the pay of "master taylors" at 12d. (24.3?) a day, "inferior taylors" at 8d. (16?) "with dyett," also provided that the rates' for unskilled labor be fixed by the town constable and "two indifferent freemen...
Nationwide regulations now provide a maximum ten-day farmwork "holiday" for children 12 to 14, with special provisions for subsequent half-school, half-work days. Pay for farm-handing during this so-called holiday is set at 4d (8?) to 8d an hour for boys, slightly less for girls. Slightly higher scales prevail for older boys already working on the land as Young Farmers and in summer hostels...