The report concerns twenty places of which North Pukenham is one.
| North Pukeh(a)m | Wheat | Messelyng & Rye | Malt barley | Ye No(m)ber of ye Persons | Ye corne to (er)ve ye mrket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frances Reynolds | l cobs | x cobs | 10 | ||
| John Cuves | i cobs | iiij cobs | iij cobs | 3 | |
| John Constable | ii | iiij | iii | 7 | |
| John Egglynge | iiij | v | iij | 6 | |
| John Callibut | ii | iij | 9 | ||
| John Samlyng | v | v | 4 | ||
| James Wryght | ij cobs | viii cobs iii cobs | v cobs iii cobs | 6 | |
| Sma totall | xvico. | iiijxx ijco | xxviico. |
APPENDIX V.
Part of a draft of orders for remedying the scarcity of corn in 1586 (Lansdowne MSS. Brit. Mus., No. 48, f. 128).
The following draft is found among the Burleigh papers. It is written on four folio sheets on both sides, for the most part in an official hand, but throughout it is corrected in Burleigh's own hand, and the last portion is written entirely by him.
The orders here contained must have been substantially the same as those issued and printed by order of the Privy Council on Jan. 4, 1586/7 since a series of reports dated in 1587 answer these instructions point by point[737]. Most of these regulations were suggested by the three judges, Popham, Mildmay and Manwood, to whom the matter had been referred. Their report was considered and annotated by Burleigh, and the following draft seems to have been based on their conclusions[738].
Already several times during the reigns of Edward and Elizabeth similar sets of orders had been issued in order to prevent a bread famine in years of high-priced corn. Earlier in this year of 1586 commands had already been sent, and reports had been received from the justices. These orders however were more carefully considered and detailed than any previous commands.
Orders of this kind continued to be issued throughout the reigns of Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I., but these of January 1586/7 were thought to have the best effect and were reprinted and reissued in 1594[739]. They thus seem to be the original form of the scarcity Book of Orders which apparently afterwards suggested the Book of Orders for the relief of the Poor of Jan. 1630/1.