[261] Dom. State Papers, Queen Eliz., Vol. 189, 50. The report goes on to say that the clothiers will have to give up their trade, because since they might only sell to English merchants they could not get a good price. They say they were working at a loss of 6s. 8d. a cloth. See p. 86 supra for the Earl of Leicester's letter to the same effect.
[262] Bacon's Annals of Ipswich, 1st April, 1591.
[263] Thus a fifteenth at Reading raised "xxiiiili. xiiid. ob. ut patet per recordum in Scaccario domini Regis inde factum et per veterem compotum per collectores inde similiter factum." Records of Reading, I. 87, 1489.
[264] See p. 30. See Cannan, The History of Local Rates, p. 20.
[265] Bacon, Annals of Ipswich, 8th Oct. 1585, p. 344.
[266] Regulations of a House of Correction at Bury, Suffolk. Eden, Vol. III. Appendix vii.
[267] Bacon's Annals of Ipswich, 19 Sept. 1571, p. 292, and 1575, p. 307.
[268] Ib. 16 July, 1571. A burgess who neglected to attend the Great Court was fined fourpence "to the use of the poore." Ib. 5th Mar. 1568, p. 279.
[269] A. Gibbs, Corporation Records of St Albans, p. 46.
[270] At St Albans in 1587 two men were reported for carrying on their trade as fullers without being freemen. It was resolved that one of them should have his freedom if he would bring up one of the children of a widow Floyd until it could get its own living. Corporation Records, p. 27. At Ipswich Peter Ray, a tailor, was made a burgess provided he took an apprentice from the hospital. Nathaniel Bacon's Annals of Ipswich, 22nd July, 1575, p. 306. In Ipswich also a "fforainer" having a town child as his apprentice was allowed to trade with his linen cloth in the town on market-day so long as the apprentice remained with him. Ib. 24th April, 1599, p. 398.