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The Early History of English Poor Relief

Note 183 — Chapter VI

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Detailed reports were sent from Gyltcross, Shropham, South Greenhoe, Wayland and Grimshawe. Vol. 191, 12. See Appendix. Most of the replies sent in 1587 report the appointment of juries to search the barns for corn. Dom. State Papers, Queen Eliz., Vol. 199, 43. I. II.; Vol. 200, 16. The justices responsible for the nine hundreds of Caistor Sessions say that in their division there were 13,536 "handicraftesmen and poore people that have no corn."

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