Note 354 — Chapter VIII
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The Devonshire justices are told that people began to want employment "wch in a short time may (if not prevented) breede great inconveniences to the country." They in consultation with the justices of Exeter were to "settle some good course whereby the poore labouring people in generall may be provided of worke, and that in particular those who more especially belong to the trade and busines of cloathing." Privy Council Register, 13th April, 1639.