[324] John Lister, West Riding Session Rolls, 85. As early as 14 Eliz. c. 5, sec. 17, city or parish officers might remove alien poor to their places of birth, if such aliens had resided in their adopted parishes not longer than three years.
[325] J.W. Willis Bund, Cal. Worcester Quar. Sess. Rec.,i, p. clxxxii. The appearance of a bastard was a portentous event. See the many ridings to and fro across country to ecclesiastical and civil magistrates in the Ashburton Acc'ts (Butcher, The Parish of Ashburton), p. 47 (1576-7). The Devonshire justices order, Easter 1598, that every woman who shall have a bastard child shall be whipped: Hamilton, Quarter Session from Eliz. to Anne, 32. Cf. the item: "paide for carriage of an Irish woman into Fynsburie feildes who was delivered of a childe under the stockes." Brooke and Hallen, St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw (London) Acc'ts, s. a. 1587.
[326] Wilts Quart. Sess. in Wilts Arch, (etc.) Mag., xxii, 17.
[327] Willis Bund, loc. cit. supra, p. 8. From 1599 to 1642 there were twenty-four indictments for not laying four acres to a cottage at the Worcester sessions. Ibid., Table of indictments for all offences, p. lvii ff. Cf. Wilts Quarter Sess. Rec. in Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. on Var. Coll., i (1901), 66. W.J. Hardy, Herts Co. Rec. Sess. Rolls (1905), i, 5, et passim. Norfolk Archaeology, x (1888), 159. Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata (ed. W.P. Baildon), passim.
[328] Bund, loc. cit., p. clxxxiii.
[329] Geo. A. Wade, An English Town that is still ruled by an Oligarchy (Dalton-in-Furness), Engl. Illust. Mag., xxv (1901).