(5) Cambridge: Staploe, Cheveley, Staine and Flendish, Vol. 189, 81, III.

(6) Berks.: Wantage and Farringdon, Vol. 191, 40, I. and III.

(7) Nottingham: charitable selling under price, Vol. 189, 12.

(8) Surrey: Rye was sold to the "poorer sorte" at 5s. the bushel, Dom. S. P., Vol. 182, 7.

It is most probable that the poor were relieved in this way in many other parishes though the justices' reports may not have been returned or preserved.

[449] We hear in Nov. 1630 of Ireland that "that kingdome is for the present so plentifully stored wth corne that besides the feeding of itselfe it may also in some measure supply the necessity of this realme," Privy Council Register. In Cornwall, Flint and Hereford also there was plenty of grain (D. S. P., Chas. I., Vol. 176, No. 57, Vol. 184, No. 61, Vol. 183, 37) while the justices of Agbrigg report that "Lancashire is a county this year able to help its neighbours."

[450] Dom. State Papers, Chas. I., Vol. 182, 81.

[451] Ib., Vol. 191, 4. See below for the custom of the badgers at Chipping Wycombe.

[452] Ib., 189, 5.

[453] Ib., 186, 74.