[133] 18 Eliz. c. 3.
[134] 27 Eliz. c. 11; 29 Eliz. c. 5; 31 Eliz. c. 10.
[135] 35 Eliz. c. 7.
[136] Exceptions were made in favour of cottages built within a mile of the sea or a navigable river, and of those built for the use of shepherds, forest rangers, workmen employed in mineral works, quarries or mines or impotent poor allowed by the justices.
[137] I.e. lodgers.
[138] 35 Eliz. c. 4.
[139] D'Ewes' Journals, p. 551.
[140] D'Ewes' Journals, p. 551. Sir Francis Bacon "had perused the Preambles of former statutes, and by them did see the inconvenience of this matter, being then scarce out of the shell, to be now full ripened."
[141] Ib. p. 552.
[142] Ib. p. 555. Friday, 11 Nov. 1597.