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to pursue H.M. commands, orders, and directions, whereof they Cheveley. 

 set their hands, &c. Licen^ and 



Signed by Sir John CaRLETON Com Laws, 



(of Cheveley) 

 Sir Edward Peyton 

 Thomas Wilson 



and 

 Isaac Barrow. 



On the ensuing 21st of April the said Justices of the Peace 

 for the Co. Cambridge drew up and presented their Report 

 to the Right Hon. " Mr. Tyrrell, Esq'., Sherlffe of the 

 Countie of Cambridge," therein reciting that by vertue of 

 a letter from the Right Hon. the Lords of H.M. most honour- 

 able Privy Council, they caused a search and exact survey to 

 be taken of all the grain remaining in the several Hundreds 

 aforesaid, and upon purview of the surveyors they found 

 [inter a/ia'\ that in the Hundred of Cheveley there was 176 

 quarters of wheat and rye, 324 quarters of barley, and 

 40 quarters of malt.* 



On June lo, 1634, the Justices of the Peace presented Charles I. 

 their report to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Berkeley, Knight, J""^ '°- '*'34- 

 Judge of the Assize for the County of Cambridge, certifying that 

 they held a meeting at Newmarket on the above mentioned 

 day to take measures for the relief of the poor within the 

 Hundred of Cheveley, &c., "according to the Orders and 

 Directions formerly received from the King's most excellent 

 Majesty " in that respect. From this return it transpires that 

 those magistrates, upon this occasion, (i.) " placed and putt forth 

 Twentie poore Children as Apprentices to sufficient and able 

 Masters." (ii.) They restrained and discharged eight several 



* The current prices are not given in this return. By a similar one taken at 

 Caxton the price of grain, &c., at Royston market was : Wheat, gs. ; barley, 5^. ; 

 oats, 3^. 4</. ; peas, -iS. ; and malt, 51. per bushel. 



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