[534] _Rep. Char. Com._, XXXII. Pt. 1, p. 100.
Other legacies left at New Windsor for this purpose were as follows:--
Mathias Jenis £20 "towards a stock for the setting of poor people of Windsor on work or to purchase some parcel of land for their relief."
B. Chert gave a similar sum for the same purposes. _Rep._ XXXII. 1, p. 98.
There were many other gifts of the same kind, but of some no farther trace has been found, while others are employed for a somewhat different purpose[535].
[535] Other charities of the same kind were those of
Lawrence Atwill, Exeter, 1588, £600. _Rep._ VI. p. 136.
George White, Bristol, 10 Chas. I., £100. _Rep._ VI. p. 530.
Aldworth, Bristol, 1634, £1000 towards the setting of poor people on work. _Char. Com. Rep._ VIII. p. 58.
Atwell's gift. A lost charity of Wolverhampton. _Rep._ V. 593.
Croydon. Henry Smith gave £1000 in 1624, subject to certain trusts, which was partly to be used for this purpose. _Bibliotheca Topographica_, II. p. 79.
Hereford. Francis Pember, 1632, left money which in 1635 was assigned by his executors to be used for setting poor children to work. _Report_, XXII. ii. p. 39.
Besides these voluntary contributions the finding of work for the unemployed was still in some cases regarded mainly as a municipal duty. Thus at Richmond in Yorkshire before 1631 the money for this purpose had been provided from the town chest, and about the same time a contribution was requested but not obtained from the Corporation of Wells[536].
[536] _Dom. S. P._, Chas. I., Vol. 189, 65, and Vol. 194, 19.
Usually however the funds were provided by means of parochial rates. A lump sum was raised called the "stock." This was expended in purchasing materials and implements, and ought to have been continuously replaced when the finished products were sold. A "stock" was thus obtained in the three parishes of Beverley; each parish contributed six or seven pounds, besides the amount they formerly had, and the poor were employed in spinning hemp[537].
[537] _Dom. S. P._, Chas. I., Vol. 189, 8. X. A detailed assessment for the raising of a stock and relief of the poor was made in Norwich in 1644. See Appendix.
It was usually in these three ways that the money was raised for the purpose of finding work for the unemployed, but many different methods were used in the administration.