[153] 39 Eliz. c. 6.
[154] Ib. c. 21.
[155] Ib. c. 17.
[156] Cal. of State Papers, Addenda, May 26, 1569. President and Council of the North to the Queen.
[157] Ib., Dec. 28, 1572. Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, to Lord Burghley.
[158] Dom. State Papers Queen, Elizabeth, Vol. 86, No. 12.
[159] Ib., Vol. 81, 42. Hundred of Dorchester.
[160] Ib., Vol. 81, Nos. 14 and 44. Other reports from Northampton show that many rogues were found and severely punished, Vol. 81, Nos. 45 and 46, Vol. 86, 22. That from Bullington however is an exception, for there a watch was kept, but no vagrants were taken, Vol. 81, 16.
[161] Cirencester, Vol. 80, No. 42. The report for Thornbury and five other hundreds is for the searches made on Aug. 20th and Aug. 21st, 1571. The division contained six hundreds, and was nearly a quarter of the shire, Vol. 80, No. 33. Tewkesbury and Deerhurst, Vol. 80, No. 59. At Normancross in Huntingdon eleven vagrants were found on September 13th, of whom three were pedlars, one was a "tynker," and two "minstrells," Vol. 83, 36. III.
[162] In the hundreds of Cheveley, Staine, Staplowe and Flendish and in the Isle of Ely there were no vagrants found in the two watches kept on Aug. 20th and Sept. 12th, Vol. 83, No. 36.