i. At Blofield, Walsham and Taverham barley was sold to the poor for 2_s._ 6_d._ rye at 3_s._ 4_d._, and buck for 20_d._: all far under the market rate, Vol. 186, 16, Vol. 190, 20.
ii. West Flegg, East Flegg, Happing and Tunstead a sufficient quantity of barley and buck "for the most part in euery towne throughout all the sayd hundreds is set aside to be issued to ye poore at a reasonable rate." Vol. 192, 19, (_D. S. P._, Chas. I.).
iii. In Earsham, Diss, Deepwade and Henstead corn was provided for the labourers in every parish. _D. S. P._, Chas. I., Vol. 191, 79, Vol. 186, 16.
iv. A like arrangement was made in Forehoe, Mitford and Humbleyard, Vol. 190, 8.
In this county therefore the store for the poor was probably generally adopted all over the county.
This plan does not seem to have been general in Yorkshire, but it was adopted by at least eight hundreds[447]. There are moreover many examples of stores of this kind in Hertfordshire and some in every Eastern county except Northumberland and Lincolnshire[448]. The fact that special mention is made of poor labourers shows that relief was not confined to the disabled or to paupers. It was given in the eastern counties more than in the western probably because the scarcity was more felt in the east and the poor were in greater distress[449].
[447] Eight hundreds of York, Vol. 177, 31. See App. XI.
[448] (1) Herts.: Edwinstree and Odsey. The poor were relieved at under rates in their parishes. Vol. 182, 40, _D. S. P._, Chas. I.
Braughin, 189, 80, _D. S. P._, Chas. I. See Appendix.
Part of the Liberty of St Alban's and hundred of Cashio, 188, 43, _D. S. P._, Chas. I.
Hertford. The poor are relieved by "corne or otherwise," 189, 79, _D. S. P._, Chas. I.
(2) Sussex: Lewes, Vol. 189, 15. "Some charitable well-disposed persons sell to the poore at lower rates."
Pevensey, Vol. 192, 99. The justices "dealt w^{ th} the most substantiall inhabitants ... who partly by the perswasions of us and of theire ministers and of theire owne charytable disposition haue laid corne in some one parish about 30 pounds, in another 20 pounds some lese," and have sold it one shilling a bushel "better cheape than itt did cost."
(3) Kent: Shepway, Vol. 187, 40. The parishes have provided a store of corn for their own inhabitants.