(Ibid. p. 107, 1650.)
John Mercies wief for keeping Buckles child, weekly, 1s. 6d.
John Albaes wief for keeping Partickes child, 1s. 4d.
(S.P.D., cccxlvii., 67, 1. Feb, 1637. Answer of Churchwardens to Articles given by J.P.’s for St. Albans).
George Arnold and Jas. Michell late overseers of the poore of the parishe of Othery ... had committed a poore child to the custody, keepinge and maintenance of ... Robert Harris promising him xijid. weekly. (Somerset, Q.S. Rec., Vol. III, p. 1, 1646.) Order for Thos. Scott, a poor, lame, impotent child, to be placed with Joanna Brandon; She to be paid 5s. a week for his maintenance. (Middlesex Co. Rec., p. 180, Sess. Book, 1698).
[132]. Cary, Acc. Proceedings of the Corporation of Bristol. 1700. “Their diets were made up of such provisions as were very wholesome, viz. Beef, Pease, Potatoes, Broath, Pease-porridge, Milk-porridge, Bread and Cheese, good Beer, Cabage, Carrots, Turnips, etc. it stood us (with soap to wash) in about sixteen pence per week for each of the one hundred girls.”
[133]. Account Workhouses, 1725, p. 13, p. 37, p. 79.
[134]. Guilding, Reading, Vol. II., p. 273, Jan. 16, 1625-6.
[135]. Dunning, R. Plain and Easie Method, p. 5, 1686.
[136]. Trade of England, p. 10, 1681.