[367] Privy Council Register, 3rd July, 1629, Vol. 5, f. 399.
[368] Privy Council Register, 16th Feb., 1630/1.
[369] Cal. of State Papers, 27th April, 1631, p. 22.
[370] Rymer, XX. 41.
[371] The text of the document and the substance of these paragraphs have already appeared in The English Historical Review, January, 1898, p. 91.
[372] Dom. State Papers, Chas. I., Vol. 176, No. 1, 1st Dec. 1630. "And we have accordinge to the Statute appointed the wages of servants, laborers and workemen at such Rates as will conveniently recompence their paynes and yeld unto them competent maintenaunce."
[373] Wages assessments have been printed for Bury St Edmunds in 1630 (The English Historical Review, April 1897); for St Albans in 1631 (A. E. Gibbs, Corporation Records of St Albans, p. 281); for Gloucester in 1632 (Thorold Rogers History of Agriculture and Prices, Vol. VI., p. 694). One also exists for Hertford made in 1631, Hist. Man. Com. R. XIV., App. viii., p. 160.
[374] Privy Council Register, 10th May, 1637. On 17th May an order was made for the release of Thomas Reignolds as he had then given the weavers full satisfaction.
[375] Although the judges were not strictly speaking local authorities so much of their work with regard to the poor law was done locally that it seems more convenient to consider them in this connection.
[376] Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata, John Hawarde, ed. W. P. Baildon, p. 367-8.