...higher wages : and gentlemen's domestics frequently have salaries far beyond the services they perform. It is greatly to be lamented, that good servants every...of industry ; but since that valuable order of men lias been so generally reduced in every county, and almost annihilated in some, servants are of necessity...

...—MAVOB'S Survey of Berkshire, p. 839. Good Servants becoming scarce, as Small Farms have disappeared, " IT is greatly to be lamented, that good servants every...found. The best domestics used to be found among the song and daughters of little farmers; they were brought up in good principles, and in habits of industry;...

...MAYOR'S Surcey of Berhshire, p. 339. Good Servants becoming scarce, as Small Farms hace disappeared. " IT is greatly to be lamented, that good servants every...become more scarce and difficult to be found. The best domes196 197 ties used to be found among the sons and daughters of little farmers; they were brought...

...1808, suggested that enclosure and consolidation further eroded the institution of service because good servants every year become more scarce and difficult...industry; but since that valuable order of men has been so greatly reduced in every county, and almost annihilated in some, servants are of necessity taken from...

...was out of the question'.266 Farmers complained that sources of respectable servants had dried up: 'The best domestics used to be found among the sons and daughters of little farmers; . . . but since that valuable order of men has been so greatly reduced . . . servants are of necessity...