[472] This table of food was approved by the city rulers on 30th June, 1632 (Norwich Court Books). The keeper of the orphanage was sold wheat and rye from the granary at 12s. a combe and was given £4. 6s. 8d. for each child every year. He had also their work and certain allowances for their clothing.
[473] Corporation Records of St Albans, A. E. Gibbs, June 10th, 1587, p. 28.
[474] Remembrancia, I. No. 586, II. No. 255 and VII. No. 193. In October 1630, the store of coal was larger than in former years. Ib. VII. No. 50.
[475] "Maioris Booke for the Poore" Norwich.
[476] See above chapter IX.
[477] In 1638 at Reading 4d. a day was allowed to each person shut up in the Conduit Close and 3d. a day to each of those confined in Minster Street. Reading Records, Vol. III. p. 421.
[478] The brief was issued 25th June, 1630. Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, III. p. 223.
[479] Cooper, Vol. III. p. 225. Some thousands of pounds were collected in London.
[480] New Sarum contributed £52 to London. Remembrancia, VIII. 180. October, 1636. Bury, Ib., VIII. 207, April, 1638. Norwich, see Norwich Court Books, 4th Feb., 1626.
[481] Reading: 1639. More than £190 is spent in building eight pest houses. Records of Reading, Vol. III. p. 454.