This Lincoln school very closely resembles the experiment tried at St Albans. It shows the corporation attempting to provide employment and technical education at the same time for the children of the town.
[252] For Leicester see Growth of English History and Commerce, W. Cunningham, Vol. II., p. 60 note.
[253] Alexander H. A. Hamilton, Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne, p. 16. At Windsor also the following resolution was adopted: "All the brethren of the hall and all other inhabitants shall be assessed according to their ability by the subsidie after the rate of 12d. in the pound towards levying of a stock to set the poore on work." Mr Gwyn and Mr Harris were appointed Governors of the poore for the first year. Annals of Windsor. I. 637. Tighe and Davis quoting Ash. Mans. No. 1126.
[254] Coates' Reading, pp. 307-8.
[255] Morant's Essex, p. 182. For King's Lynn see Chapter XI.
[256] Bacon's Annals of Ipswich, 25 Oct., 1594, and 8 Dec., 1597.
[257] Regulations of a House of Correction at Bury, 1589. Printed, Eden, The State of the Poor, Vol. III., Appendix vii.
[258] Records of the Borough of Reading, Vol. I. p. 403.
[259] "The City of York in the Sixteenth Century," The English Historical Review, April 1894, p. 288.
[260] Freeman's Exeter, p. 177. Seyer's Bristol, Vol. II. p. 248. "This year 1577 was a collection for the erecting of a Bridewell at the old house called Mombridge, where much cost in building and repairing was done and one called Meg Lowrey was the first ill person there corrected." Winchester Cal. of State Papers, April 24th and April 29th, 1582. Gloucester Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 190.