[506] There is an almshouse in St Just not now occupied. See Rep. 32, Pt. I., p. 438. In Gloucester also almshouses were founded by a Mr Hill, Mr Keylock, Mr Pater, and Alderman Thomas Semys. The two last were in existence in 1643, but are not now distinguishable. Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 204.
[507] Sums were paid out of the county funds of the North Riding to hospitals at New Malton, Old Malton, and Scarborough. Quarter Sessions Records, North Riding, Vol. I. p. 43, Vol. II. p. 183. In 1618/9 New Malton hospital was dissolved, and pensions were then allotted to the old and impotent poor there. Ib. Jan. 7th, 1618/9.
[508] Quarter Sessions from Queen Eliz. to Queen Anne. A. Hamilton, p. 17.
[509] See Appendix VII., and also the overseers' returns from East Barnet and Elstree in 1639, and from Chipping Barnet and Elstree in Feb. 1636/7. Dom. State Papers, Chas. I., Vol. 347, No. 67, and Vol. 418, No. 21.
[510] In the North Riding, at Quarter Sessions orders were frequently made for the building of houses for particular poor people. Thus in the Court held April 17th and 18th, 1610, the overseers and churchwardens of Bagby were commanded "to find or provide Alice Cooke, being a poore widowe, of a house." Quarter Sessions Records, North Riding, Vol. I. p. 189. On July 20, 1619, also an order was made that the churchwardens and overseers of Startforth shall provide a convenient dwelling house for Ellen Winter before Michaelmas. At the same court the overseers of Easbie were told to collect 82s. 10d. from various townships in order to pay for a house for two poor men which had been already built by order of the justices. Ib. Vol. II. p. 211. Like orders continued to be made through the reign of Charles I. and under the Commonwealth. Ib. Vol. V. pp. 62, 255.
[511] Dom. S. P. Chas. I., Vol. 330, No. 90.
[512] See Appendix VII.
[513] D. S. P. Chas. I., Vol. 293, No. 129.
[514] Ib. Vol. 190, No. 56.
[515] Dalton's Country Justice, 4th edition, 1630, p. 93. See Chapter VIII.