[465] Poor Law Commission Report of 1834, pp. 264–277, 281.
[466] 27 Hen. VIII., c. 25. Under this Act city and county authorities are to relieve impotent beggars “by way of voluntary and charitable alms.” They are also for the first time given power to apprentice vagrant children.
[467] 18 Eliz. c. 3 directed that a stock of wool, flax, hemp, iron, or other stuff should be provided in cities, corporate towns, and market towns. The important words which show the change of opinion are, “To the intente also that ... Roges ... may not have any just excuse in saying they cannot get any service or work.”
[468] 14 Eliz. c. 5.
[469] Robert Cushman, “Reasons and Considerations touching the Lawfulness of Removing out of England into the parts of America" (printed by E. Arber, The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers).
[470] Harrison in Elizabethan England (Withington), chap. x.
[471] Hist. MSS. Com., Marquis of Salisbury, Part VII., pp. 160–161: “Orders agreed to by the Justices of the Peace for Cornwall at General Sessions for Bodmin the 5th and Truro the 8th of April, 39 Eliz.”
[472] Harrison, loc. cit.
[473] Ibid.
[474] Camden Society, 1886. Cases in Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, Michaelmas, 7 Caroli, Case of Archer. (The allusion in the text is to a precedent cited in this case.)