The Early History of English Poor Relief

by of Girton College E. M. Leonard

[416] "A true coppy of the charge given to the overseers of every towne," Dec. 19, 1623. Tanner MSS. LXXIII. II. f. 390.

[417] See justices' reports, Appendix XII.

[418] Dom. State Papers, Chas. I., Vol. 344, No. 30.

[419] Ib., Vol. 347, No. 67.

[420] Ib., Vol. 418, No. 21.

[421] Morant's Essex, p. 53.

[422] See reports from Newbury, six hundreds of Norfolk, Taunton, nine hundreds of Somerset, Wentllooge in Monmouthshire, Bridgewater, the soke of Peterborough and the wildish parts of Pevensey, all returned between May 21st and May 31st, 1631.

[423] Cal. of State Papers. Ripon, Feb. 25, 1623, Banbury, Mar. 1st, Wycombe, Mar. 12.

[424] Dom. State Papers, Chas. I., Vol. 189, Stafford, No. 1, I., Bradford and Haworth, No. 8, V., Hertford, Vol. 189, No. 79.

[425] Dom. State Papers, Jac. I., Vol. 138, No. 14.