[271] Orders given to the "Overseers of everie parish" in 1576, 1577, 1578, entered in the "Maiores Booke for the Poore."
[272] Bacon's Annals of Ipswich, 4 Dec., 1579.
[273] The gentlemen responsible for the sums belonging to the other parishes were not present, but it was resolved that these funds also should be lent on good security and the interest only used for distribution "so that the stocke may still remayne to the like reliefe of the poore hereafter." Dom. S. P. Qu. Eliz. Vol. 173, No. 62.
[274] The prices given in the History of Agriculture and Prices are as follows:
| Wheat. | Barley. | Rye. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average price per quarter of 10 years 1583-1592 | 23s. 8¼d. | 12s. 10½d. | 17s. 2½d. | Prices are not given in 1590 and 1591 |
| Sept. to Sept. 1594-5 | 37s. 7½d. | 16s. | 32s. | |
| " " 1595-6 | 40s. 9½d. | 21s. 4d. | 34s. 2½d. | |
| " " 1596-7 | 56s. 6¼d. | 52s. 9½d. | ||
| " " 1597-8 | 52s. 4½d. | 25s. 5¼d. | 36s. |
In July 1597 the price reached 96s. a quarter at Newcastle. Hatfield MSS. VII. p. 296.
[275] Egerton MSS. 2644. Copy of a set of orders sent by Henry Mildmay to the justices of a division of Essex. It is signed by Burghley and other Lords of the Privy Council, and states that the orders issued in Jan. of the 29th year of the Queen's reign were now renewed and that these justices were to meet and put them in execution.
[276] "Par sa devise demesne." Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata, 1593-1609, John Hawarde, edited by W. P. Baildon, F.S.A., p. 19. Hawarde was a barrister of the Middle Temple: he wrote his volumes from rough notes taken in Court, but does not seem to have verified his references. Ib. Introd. p. vii.
[277] The Lord Treasurer and Lord Keeper.
[278] Les Reportes (l.c.) p. 21. June 3rd, 1595. On July 1st, 1596, the justices were again addressed and ordered to return home "in regarde of eminent daungers." Ib. p. 56.