The Early History of English Poor Relief - of Girton College E. M. Leonard

For Sheepheardes wages ten score and foureteene combes.

For wheate, rie, barly, malt, sheepheards wage, and Pease six score is accounted to each hundred; for persons in house, lands to be sowen, forehand bargaines as aforesaid, fiue score is accounted for each hundred.

There beinge within the hundred of Lackeford diu(er)ssome Townes, consistinge of a greate number of miserable poore people w^ch neither plowe nor sowe for Corne, we thinke in o^r opinions and iudgem^ts y^t all y^e corne and graine aforesaid, the said poore people beinge prouided for, and the deductions beinge allowed as before is expressed, will hardely serue y^e people nowe inhabitinge within the said hundred, and halfe vntill haruest next.

For y^e Marketts within y^e hundred and halfe aforesaid they are nowe sufficiently furnished with corne and graine, the poorer sorte of people within the seuerall townes and places are ordered to be sett on worke, hauinge caused these deere times y^e weekely collections of each towne for y^e poore to be raysed and augemented. And y^e better sorte of people that haue corne doe sell to the poore of each towne within y^e hundred and halfe eight pence, ten pence and some twelue pence in y^e bushell vnder y^e value y^t corne is sold in the next adioyninge marketts.

For Maltsters, Brewers Ingrossers and millers wee haue taken such order as by his Ma^tie is com(m)anded.

The prizes of corne and other grayne sold at y^e last markett day at Mildenhall beinge y^e xxviii^th. of Februarie is

For wheate y^e combe	xxii^s.
for rie y^e combe	xvii^s. iiij^d.
for barly y^e combe	xiij^s. vi^d.
for pease y^e combe	x^s. viii^d.
oates y^e combe	vi^s. viii^d.

This wee y^e justices of y^e Peace inhabitinge within the hundreds aforesaid accordinge to o^r bounden duties doe most humbly certifie.

J. Heightting?, Roger North.
Joh. Smythe.