[377] The West Riding Sessions Rolls have been printed from 10th Jan. 1597-8 to the 1st July, 1602, inclusive. The Roll for the year 1598 contains the orders made at the Sessions as well as the panels and indictments, West Riding Sessions Rolls, Vol. III., Yorkshire Archæological Association.
[378] April, 1598. "Ordered that the churchwardens and surveiors of the poore within the parishe of Braiton shall see and take order that Elizabethe Corker and her iiijor children shalbe releeved and provided for as the late statute requireth etc." West Riding Sessions Rolls, p. 76.
[379] West Riding Sessions Rolls, pp. 84-86, June, 1598.
[380] Ib. p. 94.
[381] Ib. p. 97. The churchwardens and overseers of Wakefield in some way failed to comply with the statute, although according to Arth's pamphlet the poor there were sufficiently relieved. Ib. p. 118. See Chap. VIII. supra.
[382] West Riding Sessions Rolls, pp. 84, 85. Knaresborough Orders.
The Mayor of Doncaster seems to have been an offender in this respect; a poor man named Gregorie Shawe had lived in Doncaster twenty years and was in the Hospital, but he had been turned out and sent away. Ib. XXXI. p. 105.
[383] Sometimes a parish was disobedient even when an order for relief was made by the justices. Thus the parish of Silkston had been ordered to pay vid weekly to John Michell of Gunthwaite towards the educating of Mary and Elisabeth Michell. They had neglected to do so and were therefore fined £3. 6s. 8d., while the churchwardens and overseers were ordered to provide for the children "according to the last statute in that case made and provided." Ib. p. 96.
[384] The following orders seem to show that regular relief funds could be taken for granted. A poor succourless child was left in Ossett, and Ossett was charged with many poor. The three townships of Ossett, Dewisburie and Suthill were each to pay 16/8d. for its support. Ib. p. 41.
A child came with its mother begging to Northowrom: the mother fell ill and was carried by the constable to a poor man's house in Shelfe, where she died. Northowrom was ordered to pay a shilling and Shelfe 4d. towards the relief of the child. Ib. p. 39. There are several other orders of the kind. See p. 40.