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Prices and wages As individual building projects were generally of short duration, it teenth centuries it appears that wages were increased, first by addiis only in accounts of the crown and the principal Scottish burghs tional payments for drink and for specific tasks and only later as an that long-term series oflabourers' wage-rates are to be found. These increase in basic wage-rates. Thus although the general trend is accounts vary greatly in quality and attempting to determine an 'anunquestionable, its precise timing may reflect the method by which nual wage-rate' is fraught with difficulties. Whether or not food these annual wage-rates have been determined. and/or drink was provided and the nature of the work being underThe Edinburgh series is based upon accounts of the Town taken could both affect level of wages. Council and of the Masters of Work relative to Edinburgh. The The guiding principle has been to determine the maximum Aberdeen series is based upon wage rates recorded in the Kirk and wage-rate commonly paid during the summer season to labourers Bridge Work Accounts as well as the annual wage-maxima ·set by who received nothing extra in the way of food. The only problem the Town Council throughout much of the second half of the sevenwith this method is that during the late sixteenth and early seven-teenth century. 8.0 >. "0 '" EdinburghW 8V> 4.0 (J) (J) 4.0

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