Chapter IX: Section IV: The Relief of the Poor and the Regulation of Prices

1. Regulations made at Chester as to Beggars, 1539 366

2. A Proclamation concerning Corn and Grain to be brought
into open Markets to be sold, 1545 367

3. Administration of Poor Relief at Norwich, 1571 369

4. The first Act Directing the Levy of a Compulsory Poor
Rate, 1572 372

5. The first Act requiring the Unemployed to be set to
Work, 1575-6 373

6. Report of Justices to Council Concerning Scarcity in
Norfolk, 1586 373

7. Orders devised by the Special Commandment of the
Queen's Majesty for the Relief and Ease of the Present
Dearth of Grain within the Realm, 1586 374

8. The Poor Law Act, 1601 380

9. A note of the Grievances of the Parish of Eldersfield,
1618 381

10. Petition to Justices of Wiltshire for Permission to Settle
in a Parish, 1618 382

11. Letter from Privy Council to Justices of Cloth-making
Counties, 1621-2 382

12. Letter from Privy Council to the Deputy Lieutenants and
Justices of the Peace in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex
concerning the Employment of the Poor, 1629 383

13. The Licensing of Badgers in Somersetshire, 1630 385

14. Badgers Licensed at Somersetshire Quarter Sessions,
1630 385

15. The Supplying of Bristol with Grain, 1630-1 385

16. Proceedings against Engrossers and other Offenders,
1631 386

17. Order of Somersetshire Justices Granting a Settlement
to a Labourer, 1630-1 386

18. Report of Derbyshire Justices on their Proceedings,
1631 387

19. Letter from Privy Council to Justices of Rutlandshire,
1631 390

20. Judgment in the Star Chamber against an Engrosser of
Corn, 1631 391