Note 125 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Hist. Man. Com., Rep. XIV., App. VIII. p. 139.
It was also ordered that "every spynster to have (if it may be) vilb of wolle everye weeke, and to bringe the same home every Saterdaie at night, and if any faile so to doe, the clothier to advertise the cunstable thereof for the examynacion of the cause and to punyshe it according to the qualitye of the falte." Moreover no poor person was "to be suffered to kepe their childrene at home able to serve."