[229]. Acc. of several Workhouses, p. 59, 1725.
[230]. S.P.D., civ. 97, 1618. Petition for regulation.
[231]. S.P.D., cxxx., 65, May 13, 1662.
[232]. Hist. MSS. Com. Var. Coll., Vol. I., p. 94, Wilts. Q.S. Rec., 1623.
[233]. Council Register, 2nd March, 1631-2.
[234]. Davies (J. S.) Southampton, p. 272.
[235]. A report to the council from the High Sheriff of Somerset says: “Yet I thincke it my duty to acquaynt your Lordshipps that there are such a multytude of poore cottages builte upon the highwaies and odd corners in every countrie parishe within this countye, and soe stufte with poore people that in many of those parishes there are three or fower hundred poore of men and women and children that did gett most of their lyvinge by spinnyng, carding and such imployments aboute wooll and cloath. And the deadness of that trade and want of money is such that they are for the most parte without worke, and knowe not how to live. This is a great grievance amongst us and tendeth much to mutinye.”
(S.P.D., cxxx., 73, May 14, 1622, High Sheriff of Somersetshire to the Council.)
[236]. Second Humble Address from the poor Weavers.
[237]. The Council ordered the Justices of the Peace for the counties of Wilts, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Gloucester, Worcester, Oxford, Kent and Suffolk, to summon clothiers and “deale effectually with them for the employment of such weavers, spinners and other persons, as are now out of work.... We may not indure that the cloathiers ... should att their pleasure, and without giving knowledge thereof unto this Boarde, dismisse their workefolkes, who being many in number and most of them of the poorer sort are in such cases likely by their clamour to disturb the quiet and government of those partes wherein they live.” (C.R., 9th Feb., 1621-2.)