For our bodyes have sume ceare
Before we arise
Less will safise
Note. The poor there is more
Than goes from dore to dore etc.
Cal. of State Papers, Nov. 22nd, 1630.
There were several attacks on carts at Newbury and elsewhere; and there were rioters at Gloucester.
[469] Thus at Doncaster engrossers of corn were made to sell their stocks in bushels and peckes 7s. a load under the market price. Dom. State Papers, Chas. I., Vol. 189, 8. III. At Ipswich, Edw. Man refused to bring his corn to market when ordered to do so and was made to submit and to sell sixpence a bushel under the market rate. Privy Council Reg. 26th Dec. 1630, f. 256 and 272. Conners and bakers of Colchester also were guilty of the same offence and were punished in the same manner, D. S. P., Vol. 184, 30. At Uppingham, an Edmund Wright refused to pay his rate and if still refractory was to be ordered to appear before the Privy Council. Privy Council Reg., 24th Feb., 1631/2. Two justices of Stamford were removed from their office and one was sent to the Fleet because they opposed the Book of Orders. 3rd Dec., 1631, f. 286.
[470] Hist. of Agric. and Prices, Vol. V. p. 592.
[471] W. Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Vol. II. p. 688.