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The Early History of English Poor Relief

Note 449 — Chapter X

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We hear in Nov. 1630 of Ireland that "that kingdome is for the present so plentifully stored wth corne that besides the feeding of itselfe it may also in some measure supply the necessity of this realme," Privy Council Register. In Cornwall, Flint and Hereford also there was plenty of grain (D. S. P., Chas. I., Vol. 176, No. 57, Vol. 184, No. 61, Vol. 183, 37) while the justices of Agbrigg report that "Lancashire is a county this year able to help its neighbours."

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