[90] Ib., p. 292. 10 Sept. 1571.
[91] Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, vol. II. pp. 62, 132.
[92] Ib., p. 110.
[93] Ib., p. 110.
[94] Ib., p. 163.
[95] "City of York in the Sixteenth Century." Article by Miss Maud Sellars, The Eng. Hist. Rev., April 1894.
At York, in the reign of Henry VIII., beggars had been badged, and in 1551 a fixed poor rate had been levied from the different wards. The system of allowing licensed beggars to beg was however continued in York for some time after 1569.
[96] Hist. Man. Com., Rep. VIII. p. 427. Gloucester, 14 Eliz. c. 5.
[97] J. S. Brewer's Reign of Hen. VIII., II. p. 261.
[98] Letters and Papers of Hen. VIII., 13 March, 1528, IV. No. 4058.