[575] 14 Chas. II., c. 12.
[576] Coke's Institutes II., p. 729.
[577] Hamilton's Quarter Sessions from Queen Eliz. to Queen Anne, p. 16.
[578] Translation from the "Diary of the Duke of Stettin's Journey," pp. 12 and 13, Trans. of Royal Hist. Soc.
[579] The pamphlet is addressed to King James I. and the statute for branding rogues is called the "new statute": this probably refers to the 1 Jac. I. c. 7, 1603-4. No mention is made of the 7 Jac. I. c. 4, which commanded the establishment of Houses of Correction, and was passed in 1609-10. The pamphlet therefore was written in the reign of James I., probably soon after 1604 and before 1610.
[580] Stanleyes, Remedy, p. 8.
[581] Eden, State of the Poor, I. p. 155.
[582] "Among fortie beggers you shall not find one man of trade." Add. MSS., No. 12496, f. 238. A favourite question of the present Lord Chief Justice of England before he sentences a prisoner is, "Has he ever been engaged in any regular work or had any definite employment?"
[583] Add. MSS., Brit. Mus., No. 12496, f. 238. This writer differs from most of the time in expressing disapproval of Bridewells. He is an advocate for prevention rather than cure, for apprenticing the child rather than for correcting the vagrant.
[584] Add. MSS., No. 12504, 14th Jan., 17 Jac. I.