Chapter XXXVII: Appendix: XV (1)

Ordinance of the Lords for putting in execution the laws for the relief of the poor[783] (_King's pamphlets_, Brit. Mus. 669, f. 9, No. 81).

[783] See above, p. 270.

This sheet is prefixed by the royal arms.

Die Veneris 5 March 1646.

The Lords in Parliament Assembled taking into their consideration the multitude of Beggars, poore, and Vagabonds in and about the Cities of _London_, _Westminster_ and in the other parts of this Kingdome; for prevention whereof, divers Acts of Parliament have been made, as well to punish such Beggars and Vagabonds, as also to provide for the reliefe of poore people, but by reason of the unhappy distractions of these times, the putting of the Lawes into Execution have been altogether neglected. It is therefore Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, That the Lord Mayor of the City of _London_ for the time being, and all Judges and Justices of Assize and Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and generall Goale delivery, in their severall Circuits, and Justices of Peace in their Quarter Sessions, and all other person or persons (who are by any Act of Parliament entrusted to see the said Acts put in Execution, and the poore to be provided for) doe strictly and carefully put in Execution all and severall the Acts of Parliament for the punishment of Beggers, Rogues, and Vagabonds and for releife of the poore. And the said Judges and Justices of Assize in their severall Circuits are required to give the said Acts of Parliament in charge at the Assizes in all the Countries where they shall come and keep Assize.

_Joh. Brown Cler. Parliament._

Printed at _London_ for _John Wright_ at the King's Head
in the Old Baily 1646.

INDEX.

abbey, new 28

abbeys 3, 290, _see_ monasteries

Abbot, Archbishop 157, 164, 211, 222, 258

Aberdeen, boro. 280 n., 285, 286, 289;
diocese of 287

Abingdon 226, 260

able-bodied poor, _see_ poor

accounts of overseers of Alton 174
" of Bridewell 352 seq.
" of Gloucester 129, 130
" of overseers &c. of Finsbury division 360 seq.
" of Newcastle corporation 125
" of overseers, collectors, deacons, &c. of Norwich,
102 n., 367
" of overseers in St Alban's district 182
" of overseers of St John's Walbrook 97
" of Sheffield corporation 225, 226
" of overseers of Staplegrove 327 seq.
" of Reading workhouse 113

Acland, Sir John, charity of 216 n.

Acts of Parliament, _see_ statutes

actions legal, fees for 44

Acton, J. and W., charities of 234 n.

administration, _see_ execution of law

Aelfric 3 n.

Agbrigg 192 n., 255 n.

aldermen, authority of, 134 n.
" of London 26, 30, 55, 95, 96, 305 seq.
" Court of 26, 30
" of Norwich 102 n., 104, 105, 106, 224 n.
" of Newcastle 124
" of Cambridge 44

Aldrich, Allderiche, Aldriche, John 104, 308, 311 seq.

Aldworth, Richard 212 n.

Aldworth, Thomas 122, 222 n.

alehouses, alehouse keepers, license of 117, 179, 332
" unlicensed 174, 346 seq.
" questions touching, 344
" misdemeanours in 175, 346 seq., 366, _see_ fines
" reduction and suppression of 145, 185 seq., 194 n., 252,
325, 332, 358, 366
" regulation of 179, 180, 325, 331, 332, 346 seq.
" fines for unlicensed &c. 138 n., 360 seq., 366,
_see_ Sunday

Alfred, King 3

All Saints', Hereford 211 n.

allowance to poor brethren 42 n., _see_ pensions

almoners, Gloucester 129 n.

alms, _almes_, _almose_, _allmns_, _almesse_, _alyms_, 30, 35, 36,
52, 54, 55, 102, 271
" increase beggars 40
" in Anglo-Saxon times 2 seq.
" at Southampton 9
" of great houses, 17 seq.
" distributed by parish priests, monks and guilds 6 seq.
" of Sir Julius Caesar, 295
" official collection of, 26, 55, 56, 57, 62, 63, 96, 278
" whether or not given to particular people in Norwich, 308 seq.
" in France 290
" _see_ charities, collections, contributions and giver,
restraint of

almsgiving, 66, _see_ alms

almshouses, 8, 19, 27 n., 77, 101, 204, 207 seq.

Alton 173, 176, 177 n., 186, 256 n.

Alythwaite 214

amendments 75 seq.

America 230 n.

Amesbury 50 n.

Andersfield 194 n., 254 n., 261

Andover 186, 298

Anglo-Saxon times 2 seq.

Antigua 230

Applebye, William 217 n.

Appleton in the Street 171 n.

Appletree 151, 262 n., 299

Appowell, charity of 233

apprentices, statutory provisions touching 55, 56, 57, 76, 134 n.,
138 n., 154, 155, 158, 179 n., 343 n.
" in Scotland 279, 279 n.
" poor children placed as 35 n., 117 n., 129, 167, 173,
174, 175, 177, 180, 182, 183, 215 seq., 247, 248, 249, 250,
251, 252, 253 seq., 299, 315, 328, 345 seq., 357, 359,
361 seq., 366, 369
" in Bridewell 38, 217, 352, 353, 354, 356, 270
" opinion concerning 215 seq., 244, 295
" questions touching 247, 342, 344, _see_ charities

archbishops, _see_ Canterbury and York

aristocracy 296

Arksey 168

Armingford 82

arms and armour 338, 339

army, Parliamentary 274

Arth, Henry 127 seq., 139, 168 n.

_articles_ sent to justices 81
" " overseers 174, 181

artificers 49, 228 n., 322, 323, _see_ labourers and lending cash

Arundel 256

Ashley, Prof. 20

Ashton-under-Line 259

Askham 257 n., 363

assemblies, tumultuous 270

Asser 3 n.

assessments, cessments 116 seq., 167, 173 n., 180
" in London 29, 96
" in Cambridge 44
" in Norwich 104, 223 n., 367 seq.
" in North Riding 171, 171 n., 173
" in West Riding, 168
" voluntary 117, 129, _see_ rates

assizes 179 n., 247 n., 299

assize of bread and beer 176, 332, 344

Atkinson, Thomas 176

attorneys 44

Athelstan, the Atheling 3 n.
" King 2 n.

Atwill, charity of 222 n.

Aucher, Richard 187 n.

Audeley, Robert 265 n.

Augsburg 20

Axton 264 n.

Aylesham 331

Babergh 173 n., 187, 245

_babis_ 280 n., 285

Bacon, Lord 73, 74, 76, 79, 294

Bacon, Nathaniel 316

Badbury 256 n.

badges for beggars 25, 26, 41, 280 n., 284 n., 285, 288 n.,
_see_ beggars, tokens

badgers 50 n., 87 seq., 188 n., 193, 316, 322, 323 seq., 340
" def. of 320

Bagby 214 n.

Bailey, Old 71 n.

bailies, bailiffs 44, 57
" Scotch 279, 287 n.
" of Ipswich 42, 43, 115
" of Norwich Bridewell 104, 312
" of Lydd 178

bairns 280

baize, bays, bayes 152, 160, 225

bakehouse 37

bakers 124, 150, 176, 321, 332, 358

Bakers 197 n.

Bamme, Adam 23

Banbury 185

Banff 284

banishment 77

bankruptcies 148

bar of House of Lords 76

Barbados 229, 330

Barbor, charity of 234 n.

bark 85

Barker, Andrew 215 n.

Barking 83

barley 179, 185 seq., 189 n.
" bread corne of poore, 145, _see_ corn

Barnes, Sir George 31, 35

Barnet 181, 182, 214 n., 258, _see_ Chipping Barnet and Friern Barnet

Barnstaple, 121, 202, 202 n., 227, 230, 234

Barnwell Gate 226

barrack 27 n.

Barrett, John, charity of 234

Barrington, Sir Thomas 340, 341

_baskitmaker_ 309

Bastable 228 n.

Bastardy 75

Bassetlaw, report from 256 seq., 361 seq.

Bath, Earl of, 121

beadle, biddell, 34, 98, 355

bearwards, _bearewards_ 68, 69, 70, 344

Becontree 228 n.

bedding, bedsteads, bedticks, 33, 260 n., 357 n.

Bedford co. 89, 91 n.

Bedford boro. 255, 261

Bede 2

beer 181, 198, 199, 207
" export forbidden 150
" price of 179, 331

beggars, beggary 2, 11 seq., 31, 36, 38, 43, 54, 77, 81, 151, 167,
169, 175, 242, 244, 295
" continental 13
" Scotch 278 seq., 287 seq.
" Irish 93
" sturdy and able-bodied, 4, 11 seq., 34, 56, 59, 99, 325,
_see_ vagrants, rogues
" impotent, _see_ poor
" licensed or badged 20, 25, 26, 41, 42, 45, 53, 54, 58, 63,
168, 279, 280 n., 284, 287 seq.
" movements restricted 5, _see_ settlement
" regulations of London 25 seq.
" number in Norwich 102
" punishment of 25, 79, 181, _see_ vagrants
" multitude of 11 seq., 280 n., 288
" declared rogues, 134, 344
" disappearance of 128, _see_ vagrants

begging prohibited 58, 101, 104, 105, 106, 311

Bell, Thomas 209

_Belman_ 224

benevolences 227 n., 269

Bennett, Sir T., charity of 221 n.

Bentley 168

bequests, _see_ charities

Bergholt 50

Berkshire 48, 87 n., 192, 193, 196 n.

Bethlehem, Bedlam 27 n., 28, 35, 38, 354, 370, _see_ hospitals, royal

Beverley 210, 223, 255

Bills 68 seq.
" of 1566 68
" of 1571 69
" of 1572 69
" new, of 1597 74 seq.
" for Houses of Correction 75 seq., 137
" new bill for rogues 76, 137

bill of churchwardens 99

billeting of poor 192, 214, 242, 251

Bilstrop (Bilsthorpe) 364

Birden, W., charity of 234 n.

Bishops 58 n., 59 n., 86 n.
" exhortation of, 52, 57, 59
" appropriates tithe for poor 6 n.
" letter to 122
" inquire into breaches of trust 78, 136
" interrogatories of 58 n.

Bishops Castle 263 n.

Black Death 3
" Friars, House of 43

Blackfriars 272

Blackwell Hall 48, 369

Blandford 253

blind 55

Blofield 228 n., 191 n.

Bloise, Alice and Rose, charities of 234 n.

Blue Coat School, _see_ Christ's Hospital

Blundell, Alice, charity of 233

Blythe, Dr 44

Blything, hundred of 89 seq., 190 n.

boarding out 202, 219, 369

Bocardo 221 n.

Bocking 152, 160, 161

Bole 257 n.

Boltby 171 n.

Book of Orders, _see_ Orders

book register 57 n.

books of subscriptions, London 31

"_Booke devised for the settinge of the poore on worke_" 93, 98 seq.

_Booke for the Poore_, Norwich 102, 311 seq., _see_ _Maioris Bocke_

_boote wrighte_ 309

booth 44

boroughs, _see_ towns

Boscombe 50 n.

Boteler, John 351

Bountisborough 246

Bowes 35, 111

box, poor's 55, 58 n., 113, 288, 290

boys 216, 216 n., 217 n.
" of St Giles' 198
" emigrant 230, _see_ children
" at school 218

Bradford 186

Brafferton, Thomas 111

Braintree 152, 160, 161

Bramber 256 n., 265 n., 298

branding 138 n., 243

Braughing, half hundred report on book of orders 248 seq., 256 n.,
344 seq.
" corn sold under price 190 n., 191 n., 252, 263 n., 344 seq.

Braughing town 345, 349

bread 198, 199
" poor relieved with 90, 124, 192
" gifts of 207, 212, 212 n., 345, 349
" serving poor with 180, 181
" three sorts of 332, _see_ assize of bread

brethren of St Cross 208 n.

brewers 176, 321, 324, 331, 335, _see_ maltsters

Bridewell 26 n., 31, 32, 33, 36 seq., 65, 69, 92 n., 98, 99, 100,
217 seq., 229, 244 n., 269, 370
" London apprentices of 38, 217 seq., 235, 352, 353, 354, 356
" report of 351 seq.
" better sort in 37
" steward and officials of 37, 351, 355 seq.
" clerk of the work in 37
" value of labour in 352
" money given towards 352
" debts due to 354
" revenues of 356
" occupations in 33, 100, 217
" Norfolk 94
" Norwich House of Normans 101, 104, 311 seq., 314
" Bristol 114 n., _see_ hospitals royal and governors of,
and also Correction Houses of

Bridgwater 185 n., 157
" Earl of 156 n.

bridges, charities for 136, 137 n.

Bridport 193

briefs for collections 203

Brinklow 28, 30

Bristol, Brestow 40, 86 n., 114, 121 n., 124, 150, 189, 209, 210,
212, 213, 215 n., 219, 220, 222 n., 227
" scarcity measures 1594-7, 122 seq.
" pressure on employers at 231, lending cash

Brittany 291

Brixton 83, 256

broggers 320

buck sold under price 191 n.

Buckingham co. 88 n., 193
" boro. 188, 256 n., 261, 265 n.

Buckingham, Duke of 12, 19 n.

Buckrose, 259 n.

Buddlesgate 256 n.

Budleigh, West 190 n.

Bullington 82

Bulmer 196 n.

Bulmer, Henry de 8

Buntingford 228, 228 n.

Burgesses 42, _see_ towns

Burghley, _see_ Cecil

burial, paupers 180, 329

Burneston 171 n.

Burnham 245

Burton's almshouse 210

Bury 65, 113, 116, 157, 157 n., 163 n., 200

bushel, varying size of 84 n., 187 n.

butchers, fines of, 138 n., 175

butter 51, 199

buttons, making of 223, 309

Caesar, John 296

Caesar, Sir Julius 244, 295, 331

Caistor, Sessions of, 88

cakes 332

Calais 48

Cambridge co. 82, 162, 191 n., 192, 253 n., 263, 358 seq.
" boro. 43 seq., 45, 62, 64, 108, 200, 264
" new tenements in, 93
" workhouse at 226
" Mayor 174
" St Mary's church in 44
" reports from 174 seq., 176, 177 n.
" university of 93 n., 176

Campbell, Lady 233

Canninge, William 210

Cannington 254 n., 261

canons, _see_ Aelfric

Canterbury 4, 41
" parishes of St Andrew, St George, St Michael 41
" work at 110
" see of 211

Canterbury, Archbp. of 86 n., 101, 102, 122, 157, 211, 217

caps 33

captives, charities for 136

Carberton (Carburton) 257 n.

cards, carders, carding 33, 85, 260 n.

Carew, Sir Ranulph 178

Carhampton 245

Caribee Isles, Lord of 230

Carleton, letter to 145 n., 146

Carlford 264 n.

Carmarthen 151

Carlisle, Earl of, 230

carpenters 103, 218, 225, 354

Carr, John 219

carriers 138 n., 175

carts, attacks on 196, 197 n.

Cartmell 214

Cashio 191 n., 255 n.

Catherine, wife of Hen. VIII. 27

cavaliers 370

Cecil, Lord Burghley 31, 32, 68, 74, 75, 79, 81, 86, 93, 119 n.,
146, 318, 334
" letter to 32, 126
" Sir Robert 130 n., 136 n.
" Sir Thomas 74

census of poor, Norwich 103, 308 seq.

certificate of punishment 54
" of observance of fasts &c. 122, _see_ reports

Chamberlain 146 n.

Chamberlain, the 8, 25

Champion, Humphrey 212 n.

Chancellor, Lord 78, 136
" of the Exchequer 157
" of University 70

chantries, statute of 43

chapmen, petty 70, 344

charge to overseers 142, 180
" of Lord Chancellor 166

charity, charities 7, 59, 61, 63, 86 n., 136, 137, 200, 204,
210 seq., 259, 289, 295
" old methods of 17
" for providing work 222 seq., _see_ work
" for apprentices 215, 216
" for prisoners 220 seq., _see_ lending cash, endowments

charitable uses 78, 248, 342, 345 seq.

Charles I. 27 n., 16, 151, 153, 161, 163, 164, 172, 198, 295, 337
" justices of 292, 298, 304
" reign of 1, 21, 68, 198, 288
" personal government of 238, 241, 254

Charles II., reign of 276

Charter of University 176
" of St Cross 207

Charterhouse 211

cheese 199

Cheeseman 112 n.

Cheap, _Chepe_, _Cheape_, ward of 25, 305

Cherbury 299 n.

Chert, B., charity of 222 n.

Cheshire 138 seq.
" constable of 139
" reports from 248

chest, town 111, 201, 222, 280 n.

Chester 8
" fair of 139
" Earl of 139
" castle at 248
" hospital at 271

Chesterton 82 n., 264
" 358 seq.

Cheveley 82, 191 n.

Chichester 228 n.

children 31, 32, 34, 39, 43, 57, 64, 65 n., 76, 98, 99, 109, 113,
117 n., 134, 135 n., 167, 167 n., 169 n., 175, 198, 215 seq.,
226, 238, 294, 299, 369 seq.
" unapt for learning 33
" vagrant 82, 83
" apprenticing of, _see_ apprentices
" payments for 181
" emigrant 229
" in Norwich 103, 104, 105, 313 seq.
" in Wardrobe 272, 273
" Scotch 279, 281
" those overcharged with 127
" _see_ apprentices, Christ's Hospital, Bridewell, orphanages,
schools

Children's Hospital, _see_ St Giles' Norwich

Chilford 192 n., 253 n., 256 n., 264 n.

Chipping Barnet 181, 182, 214 n.

Chipping Wycombe 188 n., 192 n., 193 seq.

Chorley 346

Christ's Church 28

Christ's Hospital, London 26 n., 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40,
216, 219, 269 seq., 369
" Treasurer of 97, 97 n., 99
" Ipswich, 43, 113, 117, 218, 269, 270
" guider of 113

Christmas 1622 145, 146

chroniclers of Bristol and Shrewsbury 123 seq.

church, churches, every one to go to 58 n., 65, 100
" people called to 31, 306
" absence from, _see_ fines
" in London 28
" charities for repairing 136
" plate 41

churchwardens, 44, 55, 56, 57, 59, 96, 122, 129, 154, 159, 167,
169 n., 170 n., 171 n., 174, 175, 263 n., 305, 306, 360
" French 290
" accounts of 327
" inquiries made from 337
" returns of 345 seq.

citizens of London 27 n., 34, 35, 64

City of London, _see_ London

Cirencester 82

Civil War 113, 132, 150, 153, 198, 202, 231, 238, 266 seq., 270,
274 seq., 301, 301 n., 302

Clackclose 264 n.

Clavering 190 n.

Clay, North and South 361

clergy, felony without 70

Clerkenwell 264, 360 n.

clerk in Bridewell 355

cloth, _cloathing_, cloth trade 16, 138 n., 150, 152 seq.,
160 seq., 173 n., 369
" crisis in trade 48 seq., 85 seq., 145, 147 seq., 152 seq.,
230 seq., 245, 337 seq.
" poor employed to make 111, 182, 222, 223, 225, 358
" making at Bridewell 37 seq.
" length of 160
" vent of 145 n., 337
" unsold 152
" linen 117 n.

clothiers, clothworkers, clothemen 37, 49, 85 seq., 147 seq.,
160 seq., 173 n., 223, 255, 259, 336 seq., 358
" wages of workfolk 160 seq.
" pressure on employers, _see_ employers
" representative 148 n.
" money lent to 234, 235
" Gloucestershire 85, 115, 149
" Reading 231
" Ipswich 115

clothing, gifts of 212 n.

Clothworkers' Company 212

Clugny, cells of 27 n.

coal 199, _see_ fuel

cobbler 308

Cock, Christopher, charity of 234

coin, coinage 16, 49, 50 n., 147

Coke, Lord 74, 156 n., 157, 241, 243, 338

Colchester 157, 157 n., 197 n.
" provision of work, and workhouse at 110, 113
" corn in 50, 185
" lending cash, charity in 235

_colers_ of iron 25

collections 55, 62, 229, 283, 290, 315
" in London 26, 29, 31, 96, 97
" in Lincoln 42 seq.
" for plague stricken 52, 200, 201
" for sufferers from fire 202

collectors for the poor 130 n.
" Scotch 279
" for individuals 344

colleges, French 290

Colneis 264 n.

commissions 84, 85 n., 144, 262 n.
" draft of 145 n., 243, 244, 342

commissions of 1630/1 152, 156, 157, 240, 246, 252, 292
" local 157
" of charitable uses 248

commissioners, 31, 50, 156, 157 seq., 159, 173, 253, 371, 351
" in Norwich 104, 106
" division of 157
" _for the Poore_ 156 note 2, note 3

committees 156, 157, 280 n.
" of Council of State 273
" great 74, 76, 79
" for enclosures 74
" of Lords 75
" of eastern counties 275
" of Privy Council 148 n., 156, 156 n., 161

Common Council 24, 28, 29, _see_ Journals and London

Commons, House of 68 seq., 73 seq., 79, 293, 297

Commonwealth 269 seq., 308

communication, means of 84

Companies, City 29, 30, 63, 97, 100, 212, 213, 233
" at St Albans 111, _see_ Ironmongers &c.

_Complaynt of Roderyck Mors_ 7

Comptroller, Mr 338

conclusions 293 seq.

Conningsby hospital 211 n.

Conners 197 n.

Connock, charity of 221 n.

_Consforthe, Southe_ 308, 310

constables 65, 95, 98, 99, 120, 159, 166, 171, 174, 175, 180, 181,
182, 247, 273 n., 343, 360
" Scotch 282
" as collectors of revenue 268
" return of 345 seq.
" high 71, 170 n., 175, 317

continent 20, 71, _see_ Europe

contributions 45, 167, 202, 222, 285, 286 n., 289 n.
" deficient 97, 289 n.

convention of Scottish boroughs 280, 285

Cooper, John 227 n.

Copley, Edw. 176

corn 68, 83 seq., 204
" scarcity of, dearth of, in England 23 seq., 40 seq., 44,
49 seq., 51, 61, 84 seq., 119 seq., 130 n., 144 seq., 149,
150 seq., 163, 164, 172, 184 seq., 243, 245, 294, 316 seq.,
318 seq., 338 seq., 344 seq.,
in Scotland 282, 286 seq.
" success of orders touching 89,192 seq.
" price of 84 seq., 119, 121 seq., 180, 191 n., 193, 194 seq.,
301 n., 316, 341
" difficult to obtain 121, 125, 195 seq.
" price fixed 51, 88, 121
" transportation forbidden 144 n., 150
" stores of 23 seq., 40 seq., 50, 121 seq., 188 seq., 191 seq.,
203, 340, 345, 346 seq.
" sold under price 89, 121 seq., 149, 187 seq., 193, 197 n., 249,
323, 341
" sold at home 185, 187, 190 seq.
" surveys of 50, 87, 185, 186 seq., 193, 195, 317, 319 seq.,
334 seq.
" gifts of 8, 204
" corn seized 85, 148 n.
" neglect to provide 124
" plentiful 192, 192 n., 203
" _see_ engrossers, badgers, orders and reports

_corne busynes_ 166

corn dealers 24, 85, _see_ badgers

_corne maisters and mongers_ 128

corn owners 88 n., 89, 195

corner in wheat 195

Cornwall 84, 130 n., 150, 187, 192 n., 196 n., 239, 258, 262 n., 266

Corporation of the Poor 272, 273
" in Barnstaple 271

corporations, _see_ town, rulers of

correction by parents 99

Correction, Houses of 36, 43, 66, 72, 75, 77, 79, 80, 113 seq., 126,
130, 134 n., 136, 137, 140 seq., 158, 167, 170, 179 n., 217,
221, 223, 225 seq., 241, 272, 294 seq., 325, 360, 366
" Scotch 281, 286
" at Arundel 228 n.,
Barnstaple 227 n.,
Bristol 114 n.,
Buntingford 228 n.,
Bury 113 seq.,
Cambridge 226,
Chester 248,
Chichester 228 n.,
Devonshire 227,
Devizes 229,
Essex 228 n.,
Gloucester 129, 227,
Hastings 228,
Herts 156 n.,
Ipswich _see_ Christ's Hospital,
Kendal 227 n.,
Liverpool 227 n.,
London, _see_ Bridewell,
Manchester 228,
Middlesex 156 n., 228, 264 n.,
Norfolk 228 n.,
Norwich 101, 107,
Nottingham 218, 227, 228,
Preston 228,
Reading 114,
Shepton Mallet 228 n.,
Stafford 274 n.,
Suffolk 228 n.,
Surrey 228,
Wakefield 128,
West Riding 168,
Winchester 118,
York 114

Cosford 173 n., 245 n., 264 n.

cost of living 34

costs and charges of Royal Hospitals 369 seq.

Cotele, Thomas 342

cottages 57, 73, 125, 169, 169 n., 297

Council of State 271, 273, 277
" of the North 80
" French 292
" _see_ Privy Council, Common Council

counties, maritime 85, 85 n.
" home 85 n.
" clothmaking 145 n., 147
" officials of 179, 292, 294, _see_ justices, treasurer
" export from 150, 151
" to have a house of correction 137

_Countrey Justice, The_ 139 seq.

country employment in 231

Court 146
" of Royal Hospitals 36
" Leet 158, _see_ Aldermen, Common Council

Court books of Bridewell 38, 229 n.

Cox, Edw. 215 n.

Coxall 152

cows for poor 346

crafts 24, 37
" guilds of 210

Crediton 190 n.

Cromwell, Henry 87 n., 265 n.
" Oliver 87 n., 265 n.
" Thomas 18

Crotch, Nathaniel 224 n.

Croydon 211, 216, 222 n.

Croyland 3

Cuckney 257 n.

Cumberland 239

curate 305, 307

curés 290

_Curse of Corne horders_ 196

Dacorum 190 n.

Dalton, Michael 139 seq., 179 n.

Danby, Edm., will of 136 n.
" Earl of 156 n.

Danzig, Dansicke 124

Darleton (Darlton) 363

Dartford 264 n.

deacon, deaconnes, Scotch 285 n.;
Norwich 102 n., 105, 106, 311 seq., 313;
orders for 314

dealers 50, 50 n., 84, 93, 193
" sell to poor under price 192, _see_ badgers

Deane, Thos. 212 n.

death, punishment of 57, 70, 71 n., 73, 77

dearth of corn, _see_ corn

debates 68 seq., 76, 294

debtors 220, 221 n.

decades, wages during successive 301 n.

December, 1630, corn reports of 194

decrepit and auld 280 n.

Deepwade 191 n.

Deerhurst 82

denizens 152

Denmark 124

depopulation 158, _see_ enclosures

Derby 188

Description of England 12

Devizes 228, 229

Devon 84, 91 n., 93, 120, 148 n., 196, 213, 239, 241, 242, 258,
259 n., 262 n., 266
" discontent in 155 n.
" corn in 187, 190
" justices of 155
" poor billeted 192
" prisoners of 220

Dewsbury 169 n.

diet for vagrants 99, 113 seq.
" for orphan boys 198
" wealthy to moderate 122

dinner, _see_ St Giles, Bury, St Cross

directions, _see_ orders

discussions, _see_ debates

disorder, disquiet 51, 61, 149, 196, 298, _see_ riots, insurrections,
disturbances

Diss 191 n.

distress 49, 73, 126, 193, 294, 303
" in Scotland 286 seq.

disturbances 51, 115, 125, 144, 145, 145 n.

Dobbs, Sir Rich. 31

Dodbrooke 196 n.

doggerel 196, 197

doles 18, 54, 55, 63

Doncaster 169 n., 197 n., 256 n.

Dorchester 82, 202
" Viscount 156 n., 157, 164, 340

Dorset 84, 125, 148 n., 253

draft of orders 86, 318 seq.

drapery, new 225

Drayton, East 362

drum 126

drunkards, drunkenness, _see_ fines

dues 43, 44, 116 seq.

Dumbarton 286 n.

Dunham 363

Dunmow 190 n., 194 n.

Durham 127
" Bishop of 6 n.
" Dean of 125, 127
" bishopric of 239

Dutch, Dutchman, Duchman 104 n., 110, 111, 200 n., 273

Dutton, rights of lord of 138 seq.

dyeing 33

Eadgar, Archbp of York 3 n.

Eakring 258 n., 362

ear, boring through 70, 71 n., 73

earnings, unstable 15, 295

Earsham 191 n.

Easby 214 n.

eastern counties 153, 191, 192, 245, 265

Eastwick 232 n., 249, 345 n., 346, 351

Eaton 363

ecclesiastics 2, 3

edicts 290 seq.

Edinburgh 279, 283

Edisbury 262 n.

education 18, 103, 105, 215 seq.

Edw. II. 6 n.

Edw. IV. 27 n.

Edw. VI. 27 n., 33, 34, 36 n., 38, 209

Edwinstree 190 n., 191 n., 193, 196 n., 228, 263 n., 296

Egmonton 257 n., 364

Egyptians, 127

elders, 281, 284, 287 n.

Elizabeth, Queen, 25, 80, 208, 209, 297
" " hospital of, 219

Elstree, Idlestrey 142 n., 181, 182, 214 n., 258

Ely 3, 82

emergency, relief in 184 seq., _see_ poor relief

Emperor 48

employers 100, 160 seq.
" pressed to keep men at work 48 seq., 85, 115 seq., 147,
152 seq., 155, 223, 230 seq., 232
" losses of 148
" might compel service 141

enclosures 73 seq., 125, 126, 144, 151

endowments 269
" control of 3, 6 seq.
" misuse of 157
" old 207 seq., _see_ charities

England 1, 48, 49, 70, 150, 183, 241, 242
" many die of want in 124

engrossers, _ingrossers_ 50, 50 n., 73, 144 n., 176, 197 n., 296, 323,
331, 332, 358

Erpingham, South 218, 264 n., 331

Essex 50, 83, 93, 149, 162, 190, 194 n., 255 n.
" justices of 153, 154, 336 seq.
" provision of work in 265 n.

Ethelred, law of 3

Etherington, Sir Rich. 170 n.

Europe, Western 1, 13, 277, 293

Ewecross 299 n.

Exchequer Chamber 74

execution of poor law and Book of Orders 97, 128, 129 seq., 143 seq.,
150, 153, 158, 159, 174, 237 seq., 294
" " improved 241 seq., 250 seq., 345
" " negligence in 246 n., 247, 270 seq., 287, 371
" " difficulty in 248
" " machinery for 142 seq., 165 seq., 292
" " in Scotland 279 seq., 286 seq.

Exeter 9 n., 114, 150, 155, 157 n., 216 n., 219, 222 n.

Exning 245, 334 seq.

expulsion of poor, _see_ new comers

Eynesford 218, 264 n., 331

factors in making English poor relief 21 seq.

Factory Acts 62

Fairfax, Lord 177, 215, 259 n.

fairs 8, 139, _see_ Stourbridge

Falkland, Lord 156 n., 157, 164

family, earning of 198
" as unit 300

Farmanby 203

farmers 203, _see_ markets

Farringdon 192

fasts, fast days 122, 252

Fawley 186, 246, 247, 342

_feaste of St John the Baptiste_ 308

felon, felony 70, 71 n., 126, 221 n., 299

felts 100

fencers 69

Fenner, Sir John 264 n.

feudal system 14

fiddlers 139

Fielding, Basil 338

fifteenths, _fiftene_, _fifteens_, _quinzièmes_ 29, 100, 116

Finch, Mr 74

Finchley 264 n., 360 n.

Finger bread 332

fines, forfeitures 4, 55, 117, 138 n., 174 seq.
" list of those assigned to poor 138 n.
" fines, for absence from church 58 n., 130 n., 138 n., 173 n.,
174, 177
" of givers to beggars 105, 106, 311
" of deacons 315
" for bringing over poor immigrants 71
" for negligence 77
" for being drunk 138 n., 174, 177, 300, 344, 347, 348, 350,
351, 357
" for swearing 138 n., 175, 177, _see_ Sunday, alehouse keepers

Finsbury 360

fire 202 seq.

Fishborne, Rich., charity of 233

fishing trade 273

Fitz-Geffrie 196

Fitzmary, Simon 27

Flanders 48

flax, stock of 72, 222, 225, 256, 272, 349, 358

Fleet 163, 197 n.

Flegg, East and West 191 n.

Flendish 82, 191 n., 264 n.

Fletcher of Saltoun 288

Flint 192 n., 196 n.

fluctuations in price 196
" in trade 232, _see_ trade

food 194, 198
" lack of 85, 288, _see_ poor

football 270

Ford 299 n.

Forehoe 191 n.

foreigners, forainer 49, 117 n.

forestaller, forestalling 50, 50 n., 73, 176, 296, 320, 332, 358

forfeitures, _see_ fines

fortune tellers 70, 344

Fortunes of Nigel 216

Foulness, Island of 135 n.

Fox, almshouses of 210

Foxton, Richard 176

Framingham, Edw. 125

Framloyde 85

France 14, 48, 54, 110 n., 183, 267, 277, 279, 290 seq., 303

Francis I. 290, 291

fraud 269, 271

Freebridge 264 n.

freedom of town 44, 116, 117, 117 n.
" interference with 65

Freemanors 245

freemen 109, 116

Freshwell 190 n.

Freston 89

Friern Barnet 264 n., 360 n.

Friars 55
" churches of 28
" mendicant 55

Fridays, fast on 122

Friendly Societies 61

Frome 263 n.

Froxfield 173

fuel 181, 199 bis, 315

Fuller 295

Fullers 37, 117 n., 147

Fulsey, charity of 234 n.

funds 4, 39 seq., 41, 43, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 77, 107, 154, 167,
177, 216, 273, 278, 290
" methods of raising 115 seq., 221 seq.
" insufficient 97
" misuse of 157
" parochial 213
" county 213
" Scotch 285 seq.
" Norwich 106
" Cambridge 44
" for Reading hospital 112 seq.

funeral, beggars at 12

Furness 214

Games, unlawful 55, 69, 138 n., 173, 175, 177

Gamolston, (Gamston) 362

gaol, jaillies 241, 283, 299

Gardiner, Dr. 295

Gateshead 209

Gaunt's hospital 219 n.

gentlemen 211, 283, _see_ home

Germany 13, 14, 277, 278, 293
" towns in 20 seq.

gifts, voluntary 66, 72
" small 211

Gilston 345 n., 347, 350

girls, _see_ children

giver, restraint of, 3, 25, 41, 54, 105, 106, 283, 311

Glasgow 280 n., 286 n., 289

Glassmen, glaziers 103, 138 n., 344

Glastonbury 3

Gloucester co. 82, 88, 115, 148 n., 149, 303
" boro. 45, 114, 129 seq., 150, 160 n., 163 n., 197 n.,
213 n., 227, 262 n.
" hospitals at 129, 204, 208 seq.

gloves, glovers 100, 224, 354

Godalming 156

_Goderynges dowghetyr_ 8

Godolphin, Sir Francis 130 n.

gold and silver thread 145 n.

Goodwin, Thos. 234 n.

government, subordinate 146

governors, _see_ hospitals

Gower, bequest of 19

gowns, gifts for 212

grandparents 134, 135 n.

grain and granary, _see_ corn

Grand Concern of England explained 275

Grantham 201

graziers 49

Great Yarmouth 188, 189 n., 273

Greenhoe, _Greenhoo_, South 88, 191 n., 263, 264 n., 317

_Greevous Grones for the Poore_ 244

Gresham, Sir Rich. 28 n.

Grey Friars, _see_ Christ Church

Grimshoe 88, 191 n., 263, 264 n.

Grimsworth 186 n.

Grindal, Archbp. 110, 211

Grinton 171 n.

Grove 257 n., 364

guardians of the poor 141 n.

Guildford 222, 357 seq.

Guildford, Sir Henry 48

Guildhall 23, 306, 307

guilds 7, 42, 43 n., 210

Guiltcross 88

gun 349

Gunthwaite 169 n.

Gustavus Adolphus 264

Haberdashers' Company 233

habitations for poor 71, 75, 180, 214, _see_ cottages

Haddington 283

Hadleigh 149, 160 n.

Hale, Sir Matthew 276

Halesworth 189

Hampden, John 193, 296

Hampshire 48, 173, 186

hand, living at his own 179 n.

handbooks, legal 139 seq., 215

_handemyll_ 35 n.

Happing 191 n.

Harbert, Sylva 160

Harman 11 seq., 17, 288, 298

Hartesmere 228 n., 264 n.

harvests 49, 51, 141 n., 144, 149, 161, 164, 184 seq., 275

Hastings, rape of 228, 261
" Sir Francis 74

Hatfield, _Hadfeild_ 361

havens 136, 137 n.

Haward, John 119 n., 296 seq.

Hawes, Sir James 93

Hayridge co. Devon 228 n.

Hayward, Sir Rowland 93

Headon 365

Heads of Houses 44

hedgebreaker 174, 348

Heiden House 272

Hemlingford 87, 90

hemp, stock of 72, 222, 225, 229, 232, 255 n., 256, 257 n., 272,
349, 358

hempdressers 218, 354

hempmen 355

Henderson, Mr 202 n.

Henley 216

Henry II. 207
" V. 27 n.
" VII. policy of 14
" " vagrant acts of 5
" VIII. 11, 15, 19, 21, 35, 47, 48, 54, 58, 278, 288, 291, 293
" " hospitals refounded by 27 n., 28

Henstead 191 n.

Hereford co. 82, 192 n.
" boro. 8 n., 208, 211 seq., 216, 222, 260, 262 n.

heritors 287

herrings, gifts of 345, 349

Hertford co. 93, 156 n., 186, 191, 225, 256, 345
" justices of 218, 220
" towns of 225
" population of 274, 275, _see_ Sessions, Jury

Hertford, hundred of 191 n., 252, 256 n., 261
" boro. 163 n., 186
" fire at 202

Hext, Edward 74, 76, 126 seq., 288, 298

Heydon's charity 235 n.

Highlands 14

High Peak 298

highwaymen 243

highways 136, 247, 252, 358, 360

Hitchen 190 n., 201, 201 n., 235, 263

Hobson, workhouse of 226

_hoill, theiffes_ 284

Holland, Linc. 82, 226
" Earl of 157
" poor in 277
" refugees from 110 n.

Holworthy, Rich. 221 n.

home, order to return 120, 140, 144, 145 seq.

Hopton, Arthur 89

Horncastle 194, 264

Hornsey 360 n.

hosiers 231

Hospitality 2, 7, 17 seq., 144, 145, _see_ alms

hospitals 8, 19 seq., 39, 61, 75, 76, 77, 113, 169 n., 201, 204,
207 seq., 220, 242, 277
" royal 34, 35, 36, 38, 59 n., 64, 269, 369 seq.
" in London 26 seq., 98, 157 n.
" town 45
" county 167, 170, 170 n.
" French 291
" Edw. VI.'s foundation 31
" governors of 35, 36 seq., 38, 64, 96, 100, 269, 352

Houghton, Sir Robert 178

House of the Poor 108, _see_ St Bartholomew's, London, and St Giles's,
Norwich

householder, poor 36, 187, 212, 225, 235

housekeeping, laudable 146, _see_ hospitality

houses 100, 181, 202 " regulation of 73, 100, 108, 297 n.,
_see_ tenements
" provided for poor 214 n., 257 n., 287, 315, _see_ cottages,
habitations

Humber, counties south of 266

Humbleyard 191 n.

hundred 4, 54, 78, 151, 154, 159

Hunsdon, 249, 347, 351

Huntingdon 82 n., 87 n.
" Henry, Earl of 81

Huntspill 254 n., 261

Hurstington 265 n.

husbandry, one brought up in 179 n., 259
" poor work at 224

_husbondman_ 308

idle, idlers 104, 174, 176, 228, 229, 299, 300, 347, 349, 350,
_see_ vagrants, rogues, work

_idoll to be gazed upon_ 166

immigrants, pauper 71

import of coal 199

imprisonment 77

indenture 28, 33, 217 n.

indictments at Sessions 167 seq.

indifferent 50, 50 n., 77

individualist 300

individuals 8, 300

industry, national organisation of 302

infants 227 n.

informers, rewards to 361

inhabitants 50, 50 n., 77, 134 n., 168, 169, 180
" of Paris 291
" of Knaresborough 167, 168
" employ poor 131, 232

injunctions 58 n.

inmates, lodgers 73, 169, 170 n.

inn, vagrants at 12 seq.

instructions to overseers 218

insurrections 91, 91 n., 126, 127, 298, 303, 338

interest 118, 233 seq.

Interludes, enterludes 69

interrogatories 58 n.

Ipswich 42, 45 seq., 62, 108, 113, 117 seq., 129, 197 n., 218, 261,
264, 293
" fair at 8
" new comers in 108
" provision for corn in 124 n.
" taxes for poor in 116, 117
" charities of 136 n., 233, 234

Ireland 71, 150, 192 n.

iron, stock of 72, 76

iron works 33

Ironmongers, Company of 37

Ironside, charity of 234

Isle of Man 71

Isle of Wight 151

Islington 210, 264 n., 360 n.

Italy 89

James I. 146, 209 n., 211, 301 n.

January 1630/1, reports of 194

Jenis, Mathias, charity of 222 n.

Jersey school, Newark 204, 225

Johnson, John, charity of 216 n.
" Richard, charity of, 234

Journals of London 29 n., 305

Judde, Lady 110

judges 143, 149, 154, 159, 165, 166, 173, 178 seq., 183, 247 n.
" resolutions of 135 n., 141 n., 178, 179 n., 336
" advice of 178, 337
" decision of 276

juglers 70, 344

jurats 8

Juries 87, 88 n., 319
" Grand 275

Justice, Lord Chief 75

justice of Somerset, _see_ Hext

justices 41, 53, 59, 67, 70-94, 112, 119, 120 seq., 134 n., 158 seq.,
171 seq., 179 n., 292, 298, 318 seq., 341
" powers and position of 165 seq.
" negligence of 143, 158, 197, 246
" reports of 151, 152, 181 seq., 192 seq., 245 seq., 274,
316 seq., 326 seq., 331 seq., 340 seq., 342, 357 seq.
" letters to 143, 147 seq., 153, 162, 240 seq., 336, 338
" of Commonwealth 277
" Scotch 279 seq., 281 seq., 288, 290, 296
" Devon 112, 120, 148, 155
" Essex 149, 153, 162
" Wilts 121, 148
" Gloucestershire 148 seq.

keeper of House of Correction 227 n.

Keeper, Lord 119 seq., 338

Kemp, charity of 235 n.

Kendal 227

Kendrick's charity 156, 157 n., 204

Kent 48, 51, 148 n., 157, 191 n., 196 n., 264, 303

Kentish street 100

Kerry's hospital 211 n.

Keylock's almshouses 213

kidders, def. of 320

Kilmerston 263 n.

Kineburgh's Hospital 208

King James' Hospital 208

kings, Anglo-Saxon 2 seq.

King's Bench 220

Kingsclere 262 n.

King's Council, _see_ Privy Council

King's Lynn 113, 209, 224

Kingston-upon-Hull 52

Kington 90 n.

Kirby, John 228 n.

kirk officials 290

kirk sessions 281, 283, 285 n., 286, 289 n.

Kirklington 171 n.

Kirton 257 n., 363

Knapp, Augustine 212 n.

Knaresborough, orders for 167, 168 seq.

_knightes, younge_ 166

knitting taught 299
" dames 332, _see_ school

Knollys, Sir Francis 69

labour, value of, in Bridewell 352

labour-statutes, _see_ statutes

labour yards 141 n.

labourers 4, 17, 70, 180, 275, 309
" wages of 301, 343, _see_ statutes labour
" movements restricted 4 seq.
" casual 301
" standard of comfort of, 198 seq.
" supplied with corn 89, 185, 187, 192, 341, _see_ corn
" questions concerning 343, _see_ work

labouring class, relief of 203 seq.

Lackford 245, 334 seq.

Lambeth 57 n.

lame persons 7, 55

Lamporte 327 n.

Lancashire 192 n., 239, 251

Lancaster 194 n.

landlords 105, 108, 128, 169, 195, 203

lands misapplied 78
" tax on 178
" for charities 345 seq.
" let by governors of Bridewell 352

landwart parishes 280

Laneham 257 n., 361

_Lanterne_ 97

Latimer 28, 64

Laud 157, 164, 208, 211, 216, 216 n., 295

Launceston 209, 221 n.

law, labourers elude 4
" course allowed by 289 n.
" interpretation of 178
" firm and forcible 296
" Common 297, _see_ statutes, and execution of law

Lawrence, W., bequest of 260 n.

Laxton-cum-Morehouse 257 n., 365

lazars and lazar houses 8, 26 seq., 201, _see_ lepers

_leamit and impotent persones_ 280 n.

Leche, charity of 204

legacies, _see_ bequests, charities

legislation 296, 297
" history of 3 seq., 53 seq., 62, 67 seq., 133 seq.,
278 seq.
" French 290 seq., _see_ statutes

Leicester co. 299
" boro. 45, 111, 129, 188
" Earl of 86 n.

lending cash charities 204, 232 seq., 271

Leominster 262 n.

lepers 27 n., 42, 54, 209 n.

Lesnex 264 n.

letter to be obtained by travellers 4
" beggars with 54
" of Archbp. 122
" to Carleton 145, 146, _see_ Privy Council

Letters Patent 28, 33, 161, 209, 271, 291

Lever 28, 30, 64

Lewes 187

_Liber Vagatorum_ 13

licences 70, 241
" for badgers 322, 323 seq.
" to erect working houses 138 n.
" to collect money 271
" to transport corn 150 seq.

Lichfield 234, 274 n.

Liddington 338

Lieutenants, Lord 51, 241
" Deputy 153, 154, 337

lights, payment for 58 n.

Lincoln co. 82, 87 n., 157, 191, 194, 226
" boro. 41 seq., 42, 45, 111

Lingen's almshouses 211 n.

Linlithgow 283 n.

Little 264 n.

Liverpool 194 n., 227

living idly 142, 173, 174, _see_ idlers

loan, _loone_ 24, 51, 124 n., _see_ lending cash

Locke, letter of 145 n.

lodgers, _see_ inmates

lodging 18, 214, 279, 290

Loes 264 n., 365

loiterers 68

London 34, 38, 40, 45, 46, 52, 54, 56, 62 seq., 66, 86 n., 98, 108,
111, 123, 150, 212, 217, 219, 227, 229, 233, 235, 269, 270,
272, 273, 293, 295, 297 n.
" organisation of poor in 23-40, 95-101
" orders for repressing vagrants 5, 21, 25
" population of 188
" Court of orphans in 9 n.
" official collection of alms 26
" fifteenth levied 29, 100, 116
" assessment for poor 117
" collection in 160 n.
" small holdings in 73
" coal yard in 199
" pest house of 200
" corn store in 23, 188
" precepts of 305 seq.
" authorities of 92 seq.
" parishes in and about 157, 157 n.

looms 37, 111

Lords, ordinance of 270, 371
" jurisdiction of 158
" to go to country 146

Lords, House of 58, 68, 69, 70, 75, 76, 79

Lords Lieutenant, _see_ Lieutenant

Lothian 283

Lothingland 190 n.

Louis XI. 14

Low Countries 123

Lucy, Sir Thomas 90 n.

Lukyn, Rob. 176

lunatics 27 n., 36

Luther 13

Lydd 8, 178

Lynn, 7, 261, 264 n.

Lyons 291

maces 271

Mackworth, Sir Hen. 338

magistrates 106, 128, 213, 246 n., 300, _see_ justices

Maidenhead 216 n.

Maidstone 192, 223, 261

Mainsborough 247

maintenance, cost of 113

_Maioris Bocke_ 102, 106, 308

malefactors 241

malting 186 seq.
" prohibited 123, 144, 179, 186

Malton 170 n., 213

maltsters 145, 331, 335
" disobedient 179, 186
" contribute to poor 186, _see_ malting

Man, Edw. 197 n.

Manchester 228 n.

Mansbridge 256 n.

Mansion House 40

manufactures, manufacturers 15, 48, 49, 140, 147, 155, 230, 271
" losses of 148, 259, _see_ trade

Manwood 86, 318

mariners 43, 53, 55, 75, 78, 211, 211 n.

maritime districts 85

market, supply of 85, 87 seq., 120, 140, 144, 152, 186, 187 seq.,
193, 194, 195, 196, 316, 319 seq., 323 seq., 339, 340 seq.,
_see_ corn

Markham, East 257 n., 364
" West 365

Marlborough 179 n., 260 n.

marriage of poor maids 137 n.

Marshal, Earl 338

Marshalsea 220

marshals, _see_ provost marshals

Marten, charity of 216 n.

Martin, Rich., charity of 234 n.

Mary, Queen 27 n., 58

master, &c. of London beggars 25

masterless men 37, 39, 69, 108, _see_ vagrants

masters of apprentices 215, 216, 239, 253, 359

materials bought for poor 223, 224, 256, 261, 264, 272

Matilda, wife of Hen. I. 27 n.
" " Stephen 27 n.

matron 34, 35 n., 209, 219, 355

Mattersey 257 n.

mayor 44, 55, 56, 57, 59, 72, 106, 134 n.

Mayor, Lord 23, 24, 30, 31, 95, 193, 305 seq., _see_ London

meal 188, 189 n., 283 n
" price fixed 193

meals provided 123, 242, _see_ billeting

meetings of justices 159, 173, 175-178, 181, 182, 247, 249, 250, 253,
345, 357, 359
" of churchwardens and overseers 342

Melmerby 170 n.

Mercers, Company of 27 n., 233

Merchant Adventurers 86 n., 145 n., 148 n., 152, 153
" Eastland 148 n.
" strangers 86 n., 152
" companies 210
" taylor 224

merchants 48 seq., 115 n., 140, 147, 152 seq., 211, 230

Merchants' Hospital 210

Merthyr Tydfil 141 n.

Michelle Louise 303

Middlesex 70 n., 93, 156 n., 160 n., 228, 264, 360

Middle Temple Hall 79

Middleton 251

midland counties 240

Mildenhall 335

Mildmay 86, 318

mill 37

millers 195, 335, 340

mines, assessment of 135 n.

minister 77, 122, 122 n., 128, 154, 191 n., 246 n., 337
" Scotch 283, 287

Minories 272

minstrels, _minstrells_ 69, 70, 82, 139, 344

minutes 156, 173

Misterton 257 n.

Mitford 191 n.

Mombridge 114 n.

monasteries 18 seq., 61, 277
" dissolution of 26, 63 seq., 56, _see_ tithes

Moner, Anthony 110

money, value of 212 seq.
" gifts of 345, 346, 349
" agreement to contribute 280 n., _see_ rates, lending cash

monks and nuns 63, _see_ monasteries

Monslow 250, 299 n.

More, Mr 227 n.

More, Sir Thomas 12 n., 57, 62

Morleston 299 n.

Morton Hampstead 211

municipal rulers, _see_ town

murders 288

Mutford 190 n.

mutiny, mutinee 85

nails, nailhouse 33, 37

Negroose 297 n.

Netherlands 14, 16, 49

Newark 204, 225, 234

Newbury 197 n., 234, 260

Newby, Francis 112 n.

Newcastle 124 seq., 201, 202, 202 n.

new comers 23, 98, 107 seq., 307, 314

Newgate, Bristol 221

New Forest 250

Nicholas 232

nightman 356

nobles, noblemen 14, 55

Norfolk 84, 88, 125, 126, 127, 157, 162, 185, 190, 220, 263, 303,
316 seq.
" justices of 94, 218, 220, 331
" Duke of 47, 48, 50 n.

Normancross 82

Normans, _see_ Bridewell, Norwich

Norris, Lord 126, 127

Northampton co. 82, 144, 151, 259, 266
" boro. 160 n.

Northaw 181, 182

northern circuit 157
" counties 254

Northowram 169 n.

Northumberland 191, 239

Norwich 45, 101 seq., 129, 188, 204, 209 seq., 219, 220, 224, 227,
231, 261, 300
" organisation of poor in 95, 101-107, 179, 186, 198,
199 seq., 308
" tax at 117, 163
" Mayor of 104, 106, 162
" cathedral of 273
" sessions at 331
" St John's parish in 103 n.
" assessment of 367 seq.
" orders for poor &c. in, _see_ orders
" census at 103, 308 seq., _see_ Bridewell and St Giles'
" Bishop of 58 n.
" Dean and Chapter of 101

Nottingham co. 178, 192, 256 n., 264, 266, 361
" boro. 218, 227, 228

Nuremburg 20

Oakham 338

oath of corn jurors 320 seq.

oatmeal 194

obiits 43

obstinate persons 59, 71 seq., 279

occupations in Bridewell 33, 100, 312, 354, 370

occupiers of land, liability of 77, 134 n., 168

occupiers responsible for tenants 108

Odsey 190 n., 191 n., 196, 228, 263 n., _see_ Edwinstree

officials, training of 92
" local 52, 92 seq.
" parochial 96, _see_ town rulers

Offlow 262 n.

old, provision for 43, 112, 206 seq., _see_ poor

order, peace 47 seq., 51, 80 seq., 85, 91, 122 n., 127, 145, 196 seq.,
272, 298 seq., 303, 338 seq., _see_ riots, disturbances &c.

Orders of Bishop 78
" and Directions, Book of 2 n., 87, 142, 152, 156, 158 seq., 164,
171 seq., 177, 197, 240, 248 seq., 265 n., 268, 276, 277, 292,
294, 297 seq., 340, 342, 357, 365

" of Privy Council 47 seq., 80 seq., 143, 149, 150, 240 seq.
" " _re_ corn 49, 84 seq., 119 seq., 125, 150,
318, 334
" scarcity book of 87 seq., 144, 145, 151, 158, 185 seq.,
192 seq., 318 seq., 334
" draft of 86, 318 seq.
" _re_ vagrants 81 seq., 282 seq.
" of justices 167 seq., 171 n., 180 seq., 214 n., 331 seq.
" of the House 76
" for Royal Hospitals 36 seq.
" for Christ's Hospital, Ipswich 113
" for poor &c., Norwich 105 seq., 311 seq.
" for poor, London 92 seq., 98 seq.
" for poor, Cornwall 130 n.

Ordinance of the Lords 270, 371

ordinances at Cambridge 44
" of Bridewell 356
" French 291

ordinaries 86 n.

orphanages 215, 219 seq., 273

orphans 8 seq., 117, 136, 137 n., 199, 264 n., 272

Ossett 169 n.

Oswald, King 2

overseers 71, 76, 78, 90, 90 n., 154, 159, 167, 169 n., 170 n.,
171 n., 175 seq., 180 seq., 201, 204, 214 n., 217, 231, 244,
247, 250, 258 n., 263 n., 265 n., 274, 279, 299
" accounts of 174, 327 seq.
" presented 171, 171 n.
" reports of 173, 248 seq., 345 seq.
" collectors of revenue 268
" inquiries made from 247, 337, 342 seq.

outdoor relief 141 n.

Owen, Dame 210

owners of corn 192

Oxford co. 82, 88, 126, 127, 148 n. 1 and n. 2, 193, 262 n., 303
" boro. 215 n., 221 n., 234

painter 310

Palmer, Sir Guy 338

Palmer, William 121 n.

Palmistry, _palmestrye_ 69, _see_ fortune tellers

pamphlets _re_ St Bartholomew's 34
" _Stanleyes Remedy_ 243
" _Greevous Grones &c._ 243 seq.
" Arth's 127 seq.
" on fishing trade 273
" on poor 275, 276

paper makers 201

papers, to wear 125

Papworth 82 n., 264, 358

parental government 65, 66

parents, 215, 219
" liability of 134

Paris, 290, 291

parish, officers of 77, 342
" landward 279

parishes 63, 134 n., 153, 154, 169, 210, 211 n., 242, 306
" liability of 5, 154, 278, 281
" rich 55, 77, 106, 158

parishioners 6, 44, 55, 58, 72, 99, 168, 230 n.

Parliament 6 seq., 29, 56 seq., 64, 67-80, 83, 91, 130, 131,
133 seq., 135, 294
" resolutions of 271
" of Paris 291, _see_ statutes

parsons, vicars, curates 52, 55, 57, 109 n., 117, 134 n., 135 n.,
290, 305, 306, 307

passes, counterfeiting of 70, _see_ letters

patent gatherers 344

paternal government 65, 140, 201, 203

Pater's almshouse 213

patients 34, 39, 269

paupers 203, 204, 210, _see_ poor
" goods made by 33, 100
" increase of 289

payments, amount of 104
" to poor 180
" for children 219
" for emigrants 229, _see_ taxation, pensions

pedlars 68, 70, 82

Pember, Francis 222 n.

Pembroke co. 151, 225

penalties 135 n., 175, 177, _see_ fines

pensioners 208, 209

pensions, allowances, for poor 35, 44, 96, 97 n., 99, 106, 143, 180,
182, 211, 213, 214, 252, 258 n., 274, 276
" for soldiers and sailors 136

Perne, Dr 44

Perse, Martin 176

personal government 153, 163, 164, 172, 241, 295

Perthshire 283 n.

pest houses 200, 201

Peterborough, soke of 185

Petersfield 174

Petherton, North 254 n., 261

petite forfeitures 75

petition of Commons 4 n.
" of citizens of London 28, 32 seq.
" of Sylva Harbert 160

Pevensey 185, 191 n.

_Phisnomye_ 69

Physician 201, 202, 208

_pickeryes_ 298

Pider 187

pinmakers 218, 354

pins 100

Pirehill 262 n.

plague 42, 130 n., 144, 160, 167, 182, 200 seq., 306, 360, _see_ rates

Planner, charity of 216 n.

plantations 230

players, _plaiers_ 69, 138 n., 344

plays, _plaies_ 100

Plomesgate 264 n., 365

Plymouth 219

pole, for every 121

Poole 227 n.

poor, def. of 32 seq., 36, 127 seq., 139 seq.
" three classes of 32 seq., 44, 64, 139 seq.
" surveyed 42, 44, 103, 261
" census of 103, 308, 314
" in great distress 30, 123, 125, 147, 247, 282
" questions touching 342 seq.
" expulsion of strange poor, _see_ new comers
" sins of 128
" two collections for 45
" earnings of 105
" feeding a hundred 3
" appeal to sessions 167, _see_ poor relief rates
" impotent 83, 87, 128 seq., 153 seq., 180, 207 seq., 238
" statutory regulations concerning 5, 53 seq., 70, 71, 79, 134
" relief reported by justices 89 seq., 174 seq., 182 seq., 214,
245, 247, 250, 252, 253 n., 256, 258, 275 seq., 356, 358, 359,
361 seq., 365
" in towns 28, 32, 40, 64, 98 seq.
" Scotch 281 seq.
" French 290 seq.
" able-bodied, _see_ work, vagrants, rogues
" children, _see_ children and apprentices
" criminal 220
" laws, _see_ statutes and execution of poor law
" relief by private individuals 2, 17 seq.
" " by monasteries 3, 18 seq., 26 seq., 63 seq.
" " by tithes 3, 6 seq.
" " from other endowed charities 7 seq., 19 seq., 26 seq.,
207 seq.
" " by guilds 7, 42, 43 n., 210
" " in the towns 7 seq., 22 seq., 62 seq., 65, 95 seq., 121,
122 seq., 129 seq., 174, 208 seq., 259 seq., 278 seq., 280,
285 seq., 286 n., 293 seq., 305 seq.
" " provided by statute 3 seq., 6, 45, 53 seq., 60, 62,
67 seq., 131, 133 seq., 278 seq.
" " efforts of Privy Council to enforce 47 seq., 83 seq.,
119 seq., 143 seq., 184 seq., 201
" " characteristics of 203 seq.
" " connected with order 48 seq., 51, 80 seq., 85 seq., 91,
122 n., 123, 125, 145, 196 seq., 298, 303 seq., 338 seq.
" " connected with increase of beggars 39, 64 seq.
" " connected with labour statutes 3 seq., 9
" " connected with scarcity measures 23 seq., 51, 84 seq.,
91, 197 seq.
" " connected with voluntary system 136 seq., 204
" " under the Commonwealth 272 seq.
" " on the continent 20 seq., 277 seq.
" " in Scotland 278 seq.
" " in France 290 seq.
" " in emergency 184 seq.
" " ordinary 124, 133, 206 seq.
" " insufficient 284, 286 seq., 288
" " outdoor 35, 42, 99, 214 seq.
" " alteration in opinion about 131
" " political side of 295 seq.
" " summary of early history 293 seq.
" " results 297 seq., 300, _see_ work, children, poor,
pensions, corn, almshouses, hospitals, rates

_poore makers_ 128

Popham 86, 318

population of London 188
" of Banff 284
" of Portsmouth 173

porter 355

Portsmouth 151, 173

pottage 198

poultry 51

poverty, cause of 128

preachers 290, 307, 355

preambles 53, 54, 246, 292

precepts 95 seq., 305, 306

prerogative 296, 297

presbytery 281, 284

presentments 170 n., 173 seq., 177, 182, 247, 344, 345, 357, 358

President of Council of North 80, 86 n.
" of Corporation of Poor 272

Preston 228

Price, Mary, almshouses of 211 n.