[776] See above, pp. 138, note 2, and 177. These forfeitures were partially used for setting the poor to work in three of the parishes out of these six.
[777] The whole series of accounts are signed by the justices Thomas Fowler, William Hudson and John Herne.
[778] See above, p. 256 seq.
[779] The following twenty-two places are all small except Tuxford, which now possesses nearly a thousand inhabitants. All the others except five have less than three hundred inhabitants at the present day.
[780] Stokeham has now only thirty-five inhabitants, so this report does not necessarily denote negligence.
[781] See above, p. 264.
[782] See above, p. 269. These reports were apparently issued every year, and most of them between 1642 and 1649 are among the King's pamphlets.
[783] See above, p. 270.
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious printer's errors corrected, including some minor corrections to the numbering of sidenotes in Chapter 13 to match the information given in the chapter heading.