138 n., 154, 155, 158, 179
n., 343 n.

in Scotland 279, 279 n.
poor children placed as
35 n., 117 n., 129, 167,
173, 174, 175, 177, 180,
182, 183, 215 seq., 247,
248, 249, 250, 251, 252,
253 seq., 299, 315, 328,
345 seq., 357, 359, 361
seq., 366, 369

in Bridewell 38, 217, 352,

353, 354, 356, 270
opinion concerning 215
seq., 244, 295

questions touching 247,
342, 344, see charities

archbishops, see Canterbury and York
aristocracy 296
Arksey 168

Armingford 82

arms and armour 338, 339

army, Parliamentary 274

Arth, Henry 127 seq., 139, 168 n.

articles sent to justices 81

overseers 174, 181

Aucher, Richard 187 n.

Audeley, Robert 265 n.
Augsburg 20

Axton 264 n.

Aylesham 331

Babergh 173 n., 187, 245
babis 280 n., 285

Bacon, Lord 73, 74, 76, 79, 294
Bacon, Nathaniel 316
Badbury 256 n.

badges for beggars 25, 26, 41, 280 n.,
284 n., 285, 288 n., see beggars,
tokens

badgers 50 n., 87 seq., 188 n., 193,
316, 322, 323 seq., 340
def. of 320

43, 54, 77, 81, 151, 167, 169,

175, 242, 244, 295

continental 13

Scotch 278 seq., 287 seq.
Irish 93

sturdy and able-bodied, 4,
11 seq., 34, 56, 59, 99, 325,
see vagrants, rogues
impotent, see poor
licensed or badged 20, 25, 26,
41, 42, 45, 53, 54, 58, 63,

168, 279, 280 n., 284, 287
seq.

movements restricted 5, see

settlement

regulations of London 25 seq.
number in Norwich 102
punishment of 25, 79, 181,
see vagrants

multitude of 11 seq., 280 n.,
288

declared rogues, 134, 344
disappearance of 128, see
vagrants

begging prohibited 58, 101, 104, 105,

106, 311

Bell, Thomas 209

Belman 224

billeting of poor 192, 214, 242, 251
Bilstrop (Bilsthorpe) 364
Birden, W., charity of 234 n.
Bishops 58 n., 59 n., 86 n.

inquire into breaches of trust
78, 136

interrogatories of 58 n.

Bishops Castle 263 n.

Black Death 3

Friars, House of 43

Blackfriars 272

Blackwell Hall 48, 369
Blandford 253

blind 55

Blofield 228 n., 191 n.

Bloise, Alice and Rose, charities of
234 n.

Blue Coat School, see Christ's Hos-
pital

Blundell, Alice, charity of 233
Blythe, Dr 44

Blything, hundred of 89 seq., 190 n.
boarding out 202, 219, 369
Bocardo 221 n.

Bocking 152, 160, 161
Bole 257 n.
Boltby 171 n.

Book of Orders, see Orders
book register 57 n.

books of subscriptions, London 31
"Booke devised for the settinge of the
poore on worke" 93, 98 seq.

Booke for the Poore, Norwich 102, 311
seq., see Maioris Bocke
boote wrighte 309
booth 44

boroughs, see towns
Boscombe 50 n.
Boteler, John 351

Bountisborough 246
Bowes 35, 111

box, poor's 55, 58 n., 113, 288, 290
boys 216, 216 n., 217 n.

of St Giles' 198

emigrant 230, see children
at school 218

Braughing town 345, 349
bread 198, 199

poor relieved with 90, 124, 192
gifts of 207, 212, 212 n., 345,
349

serving poor with 180, 181

three sorts of 332, see assize of
bread

brethren of St Cross 208 n.

brewers 176, 321, 324, 331, 335, see
maltsters

Bridewell 26 n., 31, 32, 33, 36 seq., 65,
69, 92 n., 98, 99, 100, 217
seq., 229, 244 n., 269, 370
London apprentices of 38,
217 seq., 235, 352, 353,
354, 356

report of 351 seq.
better sort in 37

steward and officials of 37,

Bulmer, Henry de 8
Buntingford 228, 228 n.
Burgesses 42, see towns
Burghley, see Cecil
burial, paupers 180, 329
Burneston 171 n.
Burnham 245

Burton's almshouse 210

Bury 65, 113, 116, 157, 157 n., 163 n.,
200

bushel, varying size of 84 n., 187 n.
butchers, fines of, 138 n., 175
butter 51, 199

buttons, making of 223, 309

unapt for learning 33
vagrant 82, 83

apprenticing of, see appren-

tices

payments for 181
emigrant 229

in Norwich 103, 104, 105,

313 seq.

in Wardrobe 272, 273

Scotch 279, 281

those overcharged with 127
see apprentices, Christ's
Hospital, Bridewell, or-
phanages, schools
Children's Hospital, see St Giles',
Norwich

Chilford 192 n., 253 n., 256 n., 264 n.
Chipping Barnet 181, 182, 214 n.
Chipping Wycombe 188 n., 192 n.,
193 seq.
Chorley 346

Christ's Church 28

Christ's Hospital, London 26 n.. 31,
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39,
40, 216, 219, 269 seq.,
369

Treasurer of 97, 97 n., 99

Ipswich, 43, 113, 117,
218, 269, 270
guider of 113

Christmas 1622 145, 146

chroniclers of Bristol and Shrewsbury
123 seq.

church, churches, every one to go to

Cheap, Chepe, Cheape, ward of 25,

305

Cherbury 299 n.

Cheshire 138 seq.

constable of 139

Chert, B., charity of 222 n.

58 n., 65, 100

people called to 31, 306
absence from, see fines

in London 28

charities for repairing 136
plate 41

churchwardens, 44, 55, 56, 57, 59, 96,

122, 129, 154, 159, 167,

169 n.,
170 n.,

174, 175, 263 n.,

171 n.,

305,