Roy Palmer says this is a reference to the Overseers' habit of keeping down wages by hiding lengths of cloth ("a cut ot two")
[Palmer, R, Working Songs, p191]
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[Note 318.3]
Roy Palmer says this is a reference to the Overseers' habit of keeping down wages by hiding lengths of cloth ("a cut ot two")
[Palmer, R, Working Songs, p191]