[550] The Barnstaple workhouse was in existence soon afterwards. 1607. "Paid for erecting and placing the stoope in the house of Correction, 18d." 1633-1640, "Paid to John Locke who is appointed to the charge of the Workhouse for two journeys here, 10s. 10d." North Devon Herald, Aug. 19th, 1880, and Aug. 12th, 1880.
[551] Selections from the Municipal Archives of Liverpool, Picton, June 24th, 1598. "It was agreed by all the assembly that a house termed a 'House of Correction' shoulde be had and taken for the poore people aforesaid," and it was further arranged that Mr More should let his house at Poole for that purpose at a reasonable rent.
For Nottingham, see Nottingham Records, Vol. IV., p. 225. In 1601 it was arranged that John Cooper should remain keeper of St John. He was to take up rogues and punish those committed to him, though at the same time he was to have an allowance for the poor infants and others which were sent to him.
Kendal, A.D. 1601. There is a list of collectors of benevolences for the House of Correction. Hist. Man. Com. Rep. X. App. IV., p. 299.
[552] May 19, 1615. "The company decide to raise 40 marks for furnishing St John's and for setting the poor there to work." Nottingham Records, Vol. IV., p. 331.
June 21, 1615. An agreement was made with John Kirby. He agrees to "diligently teach, instructe and bringe upp all such youthes, children and other persons as shalbe sent or committed into the saied Howse of Correccon in some honest and true labour soe longe as they shall remayne there vnder his chardge and government and shall fynde and allowe vnto them convenient meate, drynke, apparell and other necessaries vnlesse they bee lame and impotent and nott able to worke." For Manchester and Preston see Earwaker, Constables' Accounts, Vol. I., pp. 39, 54 and 65.
[553] D. S. P., Chas. I. Vol. 349, 72, Hayridge etc. Devon. Ib. Vol. 349, 12, Hartesmere, Suffolk. Ib. 192, 79, Blofield, Norfolk. Ib. Vol. 250, 42, Arundel, Hants. Ib. Vol. 426, 67, Bastable and Becontree, Essex, &c. The justices of Somerset write "It was presented to us that many persons lived out of service wthin certayne parishes whome wee sent to the Howse of Correccon at Shepton Mallet," Ib. Vol. 194, 20. At Chichester it is reported that "there is a house of Correccon neere the common prison in the said Cittie wch is parcell of the said provision and that such prisoners as are thether committed are employed to worke duringe the tyme of their restraynt. Ib. Vol. 190, 67.
[554] Ib. Vol. 188, 34.
[555] Ib. Vol. 189, 13. Eight years later this house at Buntingford was still in existence and reported to be doing much good in the country. Ib. Vol. 426, 73. July, 1639.
[556] Cal. of State Papers, May 15, 1623.