Note 448 — Chapter X
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(1) Herts.: Edwinstree and Odsey. The poor were relieved at under rates in their parishes. Vol. 182, 40, D. S. P., Chas. I.
Braughin, 189, 80, D. S. P., Chas. I. See Appendix.
Part of the Liberty of St Alban's and hundred of Cashio, 188, 43, D. S. P., Chas. I.
Hertford. The poor are relieved by "corne or otherwise," 189, 79, D. S. P., Chas. I.
(2) Sussex: Lewes, Vol. 189, 15. "Some charitable well-disposed persons sell to the poore at lower rates."
Pevensey, Vol. 192, 99. The justices "dealt wth the most substantiall inhabitants ... who partly by the perswasions of us and of theire ministers and of theire owne charytable disposition haue laid corne in some one parish about 30 pounds, in another 20 pounds some lese," and have sold it one shilling a bushel "better cheape than itt did cost."
(3) Kent: Shepway, Vol. 187, 40. The parishes have provided a store of corn for their own inhabitants.
(4) Suffolk: The Liberty of St Ethelred's, Vol. 187, 10. A supply of corn was to be brought from Norfolk and sold to the poor 4s. a quarter under cost price.
(5) Cambridge: Staploe, Cheveley, Staine and Flendish, Vol. 189, 81, III.
(6) Berks.: Wantage and Farringdon, Vol. 191, 40, I. and III.
(7) Nottingham: charitable selling under price, Vol. 189, 12.
(8) Surrey: Rye was sold to the "poorer sorte" at 5s. the bushel, Dom. S. P., Vol. 182, 7.
It is most probable that the poor were relieved in this way in many other parishes though the justices' reports may not have been returned or preserved.