[369] Seebohm, l. c. Fort. Rev., II. (1865), p. 157.
[370] Blomefield, III. sub anno.
[371] Blomefield, III. sub anno.
[372] Camden’s Britannia. Gough’s ed. II. 9.
[373] Hist. MSS. Commission, VI. 299. Register of Ely Priory, in Lord Leconfield’s MSS.
[374] Seebohm, “The Black Death and its Place in English History.” Fort. Rev. II. (1865), p. 278.
[375] These and other labour-statutes are collected in A History of the English Poor Law, by Sir George Nicholls, 2 vols. London, 1854, I. 37-77.
[376] G. Poulett Scrope, op. cit.
[377] From 1416 to 1424, three different persons were fined at the manor court for keeping a common brothel in their houses. Forestalling of butter, cheese and eggs, on the way to market, came before the court in 1418.
[378] At the manor court in 1417, Thomas Selwin, a butcher, was convicted of throwing offal and other offensive matters into the common street and of making his dung-heap there, to the common hurt; also the said Thomas Selwin “tarde et de novo erexit unam latrinam foetidam in shopa sua ad commune nocumentum. Ideo ipse in misericordia.” The next entry of nuisances, so far as extracts are given, is as late as 1590—various offences in the street and churchyard, and the glover washing his skins in the stream or otherwise befouling the water running by his house.