Note 552 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
May 19, 1615. "The company decide to raise 40 marks for furnishing St John's and for setting the poor there to work." Nottingham Records, Vol. IV., p. 331.
June 21, 1615. An agreement was made with John Kirby. He agrees to "diligently teach, instructe and bringe upp all such youthes, children and other persons as shalbe sent or committed into the saied Howse of Correccon in some honest and true labour soe longe as they shall remayne there vnder his chardge and government and shall fynde and allowe vnto them convenient meate, drynke, apparell and other necessaries vnlesse they bee lame and impotent and nott able to worke." For Manchester and Preston see Earwaker, Constables' Accounts, Vol. I., pp. 39, 54 and 65.