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The Early History of English Poor Relief

Note 638 — Chapter XII

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24th Oct. 1631. Ib., Vol. 202, 20. Report for Clerkenwell, St Sepulchre, St Giles, Islington, Finchley, Friarne, etc. "There is alsoe in the house of Correccon a manufacture prepared and by a charitable stocke of a hundred pounds given by Sr John Fenner Knight nowe in readynes an Artizan, who hath Articled and agreed wth vs to take, instructe & bringe vp in the saide manufacture as apprentices twenty poore orphans boyes and Girles such as before wandred in the streetes and weare readie to perishe for wante of imployment." "Many idle and loose persons haue byn lately imployed and sent to serue under his matie of Sweden and such others as are taken up in watches or Privie Searches wthin or division are continually settled in some course of life or sent to the howse of Correccon." See also Appendix XII.

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