| 单词 | statute sessions |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstatute sessions statute sessions n. British †(a) = petty sessions n. at petty adj. and n. Compounds 1b (obsolete); (b) = statute fair n. (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > hiring market statute sessions1562 statutea1600 sittinga1642 mop1677 statute fair1704 port1760 statute hall1763 statute hiring1793 hiring1825 feeing market1865 hiring-fair1883 Soul-mass hiring1884 giglet-fair1890 1562–3 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §40 That it shalbe laufull to the Highe Constables of Hundredes in every Shire, to holde kepe and contynue Petie Sessions, otherwise called Statute Sessions. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Qqq2v/2 Statute sessions..are a meeting in euery hundred..vnto the which the constables doe repaire, and others both housholders and seruants, for the debating of differences between masters and their seruants, the rating of seruants wages, and the bestowing of such people in seruice, as being fit to serue, either refuse to seeke, or cannot get Masters. 1786 R. Heathcote Sylva xlv. 145 I seemed to trace the cause to the Statute Sessions, or (as they are commonly called) the Statutes, held in October or November preceding: whither all the young men and maidens of the villages resort, for other purposes, frequently, besides that of being hired. 1867 Authorized Rep. Proc. Church Congr. York 1866 40 The compulsory assignment of places has long ceased. The statute fair has taken the place of the statute sessions. 1989 B. Hill Women, Work & Sexual Politics (1994) v. 76 In the statute sessions of Spalding,..there are records of 844 male and 722 female servants. < as lemmas |
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