Note 483 — Chapter X
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The justices of Hitchen thus report their expenses in time of plague. "By the ouerseers of the poore in this tyme of ye visitation 128li. Besides the charges of six watchmen and one officer with them euerie night, And besides dailye reliefe from the houses of the able and welldisposed. And xxli taxed by us upon the halfe hundred the greatest parte wherof is not yet payd in. And besides the charges in setting of poore on worke etc." D. S. P., Chas. I., Vol. 349, No. 70.