[289] M. A. Richardson's Tracts, Vol. III. p. 44. See also Dec. 1596, "Paid for the charge of burying 7 poore folke which died in the streete, for winding theme, grave making and carrying to the church 7s. 4d."
[290] Cal. of State Papers, Jan. 1597, p. 347.
[291] Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata, John Hawarde, ed. W. P. Baildon, F.S.A., pp. 76 and 78. Among others Edward Framingham, then High Constable of Norfolk, was brought before the Court "for converting thirteen houses into cottages and tenements and reserving the land for his own occupation and for ingrossing corn and buying and selling the same out of market." He was sentenced to imprisonment, a fine of £500, confession of his fault in Cheapside and Norfolk, to pay £40 to the poor people, and to restore the houses with the land to husbandry again. Ib. p. 76.
[292] Ib. p. 104.
[293] Cal. of State Papers, June 1597, p. 433.
[294] Calendar of State Papers, Dec. 14, 1596, p. 316.
[295] Dom. State Papers Queen Eliz., Vol. 262, No. 151.
[296] Strype's Annals, Vol. IV., p. 404 seq. Letter to Burghley from Edw. Hext dated 25th Sept. 1596.
[297] "Provision for the poore now in penurie." Explained by H. A. Printed by Thomas Creede 1597. A copy is in the British Museum.
[298] Rudder's Gloucestershire, pp. 186, 202. Queen Elizabeth granted the patronage of St Mary Magdalen also to the City on Dec. 4th, 41 Qu. Eliz. p. 187.