§ 1. Powers of the justices. § 2. Work of the justices in first putting the law in execution (a) in the West Riding during 1598, (b) in the North Riding during the years immediately following 1605. § 3. Reports of the justices in response to the Book of Orders. § 4. The work of the judges: (a) Authoritative decisions on points of law; (b) Administrative work as the link between the Privy Council and the justices. § 5. The work of the overseers (a) in 1599; (b) when stirred to greater activity by scarcity measures; (c) after the issue of the Book of Orders
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CHAPTER X.
METHODS OF RELIEF, 1597—1644.
A. In times of emergency.
§ 1. The methods by which the scarcity orders of the Privy Council were executed in 1623 and 1630-1: (a) the suppression of alehouses and restriction of malting; (b) the regulations for serving the markets with corn; (c) selling corn to labourers under price; (d) other methods of providing food for the poor. § 2. Evidence as to the success or failure of the corn regulations. § 3. Reasons for adopting them. § 4. Bearing of the scarcity measures on the history of poor relief, (a) because of the growth of organisation; (b) as an indication of the standard of life of the poorer classes. § 5. Provision of fuel for the poor in winter. § 6. Help afforded in times of plague and sickness. § 7. Contributions to sufferers from fire. § 8. Two characteristics of seventeenth century poor relief: (a) little distinction between paupers and non-paupers; (b) little distinction between relief afforded by voluntary contributions and that provided by poor rates
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B. Ordinary relief.
α. Impotent Poor. § 1. Almshouses and endowed charities. § 2. Relief for the old from county and parochial rates. β. Children. § 3. Apprenticeship. § 4. Schools for little children and orphanages. γ. Able-bodied poor. § 5. Relief given to prisoners. § 6. Provision of funds to provide work for the unemployed. § 7. Methods of providing work: (a) Stocks used to employ the poor in their homes; (b) Introduction of new trades; (c) Workhouses and Jersey schools; (d) Bridewells; (e) Emigration; (f) Pressure on employers; (g) Advancement of capital without interest
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