[426] Ib., Vol. 140, 25. The three hundreds were those of Stretford, Grimsworth, and Wigmore.
[427] Ib., Chas. I., Vol. 192, No. 34.
[428] Ib., Jas. I., Vol. 138, No. 88; Chas. I., Vol. 192, No. 25.
[429] Court Book of Norwich for the Court held 1st Feb. 163 0/1.
[430] Thus in 1623 detailed returns were sent in by the constables of Devonshire, Vol. 144, 32, V. to XXXIV., while an especially elaborate report was sent from the hundred of Pider in Cornwall on Dec. 2nd, 1630. The bushel there consisted of twenty gallons, and a return is made of the number of people in every household, of the quantity of barley, oats and wheat possessed by every owner, of how much of it was already sold, of the names of the brewers, bakers, and maltsters, and of how much they brewed and baked every week. D. S. P., Jas. I., Vol. 176, No. 13.
It is perhaps interesting to notice that as early as 1613-14 a special payment was made to Rich. Aucher, Sergeant-at-Mace, "for his attendance at corne market in the deare yeares to see that such corne were brought in as appoynted by the justices," Hist. Man. Com., Rep. IX., Appendix I. 162 a.
[431] D. S. P., Jas. I., Vol. 142, 14.
[432] Ib., Vol. 189, 15.
[433] Ib., Vol. 189, 6.
[434] See pp. 123, 124 supra.