[317] Privy Council Register, April 5th, 1598. With a note that it was dated March 25th, 1598 "and stayed until this present." The records of the proceedings of the Privy Council are to some extent preserved in the Privy Council Register. This consists of an almost continuous series of manuscripts preserved at the Privy Council Office. They are now being printed but are still unpublished so far as the seventeenth century is concerned. The volume containing the records from 1603 to 1612 is missing. The Register is by no means complete; only some of the letters and proceedings of the Council are entered there.
[318] Little Proclamation Book, James I., No. 27 and No. 23.
[319] Ib., No. 88. This proclamation states that special orders had already been issued for preventing and remedying the dearth of grain. The orders are stated to command the punishment of engrossers &c., and the prevention of the transportation of corn; the furnishing of the markets rateably and weekly &c.
[320] Ib., No. 94. 12th Dec. 1608.
[321] Drafts of this commission are in existence both in the British Museum and Bodleian, and its issue was therefore contemplated, but it does not follow that it was actually issued. Brit. Mus. MSS. No. 12,504, Tanner MSS. lxxv. 175.
[322] Privy Council Register, 12th May, 1620. The Merchant Adventurers in reply said the vent of cloth was so little because so many difficulties were thrown in the way of their sale of gold and silver thread and the glass goods of the Levant.
[323] The average prices given by Prof. Rogers are as follows:
| 1619 | 1620 | 1621 | 1622 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat per quarter | 25s. 10½d. | 25s. 5d. | 40s. 9d. | 51s. 1d. |
| Barley " " | 14s. 11½d. | 11s. 4½d. | 21s. 2¾d. | 27s. 2¼d. |
[324] Privy Council Register, 8th Mar. 1622. In a letter from Locke to Carleton it is stated that in the cloth-making counties the poor have assembled in troops of forty and fifty and have gone to the houses of the rich demanding meat and money; they had also taken provisions which were for sale in the market. Cal. of State Papers, Feb. 16, 1622.
[325] Minute of the proclamation. Dom. S. P., Jac. I., Vol. 133, No. 52. The enforcement of the orders is again especially commended in another proclamation issued on the 22nd Dec. 1622. Large Proc. Bk., No. 109.