[398] See note Chapter XII. for cases of employing the poor in counties and towns where no justices' reports definitely report anything of the kind.
[399] e.g. Appendix XII. H.
[400] D. S. P., Chas. I., Vol. 293, No. 129. Report from Ryedale, July 1635.
[401] All these are mentioned in the above-mentioned reports from Alton and Cambridge. The fines for not going to church were often regularly exacted. In one report we are told that some of the accused were too poor to pay and that others had compounded for recusancy, Vol. 300, No. 17.
[402] See Chapter VIII. See above, Alton and Cambridge. See also Appendix XII. B. Westmill.
[403] The proceedings at these meetings closely resemble those at Petty Sessions. If these meetings were identical with the ordinary Petty Sessions, then these latter must have been held more frequently in consequence of the Book of Orders. Many of the reports, like that of Cambridge, expressly state that the meetings they report were held because of the letters and orders of January 1631, e.g. see Winchester, D. S. P., Chas. I., Vol. 188, No. 101.
[404] Dom. State Papers, Chas. I., Vol. 189, No. 42.
[405] See Chapter VIII.
[406] Dom. State Papers, James I., Vol. 115, Nos. 98, 100.
[407] Dom. Stat. Papers, James I., Vol. 116, No. 51.