[20] Tanner's Notitia, Yorkshire, CVI. The burgesses of Scarborough are said to have founded and maintained another hospital, dedicated to St Nicholas, and in both poor men and women were maintained.
[21] Hist. Man. Com., Rep. VIII. p. 371. 24 Hen. VII.
[22] Nathaniell Bacon's Annalls of Ipswiche, p. 129. In Rye also payments were made to the poor from municipal funds as early as 1474. Hist. Man. Com. V. p. 494.
[23] Hist. Man. Com. V. 527. In 1482-3, 3s. 4d. was paid to Thomas Maykyne "to kepe Goderyng's doughtyr," and in 1485 there is another entry of the same kind, "Paid for a kertylcloth for Herry Goderyng's doughtyr and for making thereof, 3s. 1d."
[24] Payments in connection with this distribution of corn continue to be mentioned, down to the end of an account book containing municipal accounts from the beginning of the fifteenth century until the reign of Richard III. Hist. Man. Com. V. 519.
[25] London had a regular Court of Orphans: see also Southampton, John S. Davies, p. 159, and Exeter, Freeman, p. 154.
[26] John S. Davies, Southampton, pp. 139, 294, and C. Gross, The Gild Merchant, vol. II. p. 231.
[27] Thomas Harman, Caueat or Warening for Common Cursetors. The second edition bears date 1567.
[28] Vagrants were already numerous when Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia, c. 1516.
[29] W. Harrison's Description of England, edition of 1587, edited by F. J. Furnivall, vol. I. p. 218.