Wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in victual.

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1539.  Househ. Ord. (1790), 211. Bills of allowance … for Wages and Boardwages.

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1557.  Order of Hospitals, Fvj.

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1692.  Southerne, Wives Excuse, I. i. Dram. Wks. (1721), 270. Starve under the tyranny of a Housekeeper, and never know the comfort of boardwages again.

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1695.  Congreve, Love for L., I. i. 12. If you please, I had rather be at Board-wages.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 46. They are on board wages.

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