[475] Hist. MSS. Com., Marquis of Salisbury, Part VII., Nov. 1597. “Notes for the present Parliament.”
[476] D'Ewes' Journal, pp. 551–555; see also Leonard, The Early History of English Poor Relief, pp. 73–75.
[477] Hist. MSS. Com., Marquis of Salisbury, Part VII., pp. 541–543.
[478] Lansd. MSS. 83, f. 68, quoted Gonner, Common Land and Enclosure, p. 156 n.
[479] e.g. Nottingham Records, vol. iv. pp. 170–171, Nov. 4, 1577: “Any burgess that hath not been prentice to pay £10 and no pardon. Records of Leicester, vol. iii. p. 351, Oct. 17, 1598: “He is inhibited from dwelling in your corporation unless he finds bonds for £200 that neither his wife nor children shall be burdensome to the town." Southampton Court Leet Records, vol. i., Part I.: “One William Dye, undertenant to John Netley, dothe lyve idelly and hathe no trade.... He hathe 4 or 5 children in places from whence he came whom he will bring shortly hither, yf he may be suffered here to remayne, whom we desyer may be examined and removed from hence according to the Statute.”
[480] Some instances are given by Leonard, Early History of English Poor Relief, pp. 107–109.
[481] Nottingham Records, vol. iv. pp. 304–307.
[482] 31 Eliz. c. 7.
[483] 35 Eliz. c. 6.
[484] 39 Eliz. c. 3.