1 12 ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTES OF LABOURERS 



before the joint committee can proceed to make the appor- 

 tionment, the sum due as salaries to the justices is sub- 

 tracted from this total/ in accordance with writs under the 

 great seal to the collectors bidding them pay these salaries 

 at a specified rate per day.^ The collectors receive receipts 

 from the justices which they show when rendering their ac- 

 count at the exchequer.^ In cases where the total penalties 

 are only just enough for the salaries,* or do not even cover 

 these,^ the communities can, of course, receive nothing; 

 when, however, there is a surplus beyond the salaries, the 

 apportionment is made on the oath of the collectors and 

 twenty-five or thirty elected representatives from the county, 

 and with the advice or the assent of the justices, ** acting on 

 the reported needs of the various districts. The resulting 

 schedule states the exact amount that each district is to re- 

 ceive in penalties and is turned over to the collectors to- 



'See app., 325-326, and also p. 45. 



'Only the first series of these writs appear on the Close Rolls; for an 

 account of them, see p. 18, note 2, and p. 46. The original writs to 

 the collectors and their receipts from the justices exist for Derby and 

 for Herts.; app., 276-277, and Lay Subs., 120 31 and 120/32, Herts. 



^ E. g., Mem. L. T. R., 29, Hill., Status et visus compotorum, rot. i, 

 Essex: " . . . de quibus (z. e., the total penalties) dicunt se soluisse 

 iusticiariis pro vadiis suis de dicto tercio anno xl 11. per breuia super 

 hunc visum ostensa . . . ." Cf. also "pro feodis suis per duo breuia 

 Regis et duas acquietancias ipsorum iusticiariorum separatim de recep- 

 cione;" app., 303. 



* Derby, third collection; app., 335; Rutland, third collection; no ac- 

 count of penalties " eo quod nichil excedit vltra vadia iusticiariorum, 

 sicut continetur in compoto suo de huiusmodi finibus;" Enrolled 

 Subs., 14. 



^Holland (Line), third collection, "denarii in extractis predictis col- 

 lectoribus per iusticiarios huiusmodi servientium liberatis non sufificiunt 

 ad vadia iusticiariorum solvenda;" Enrolled Subs., 14; ibid., Surrey, 

 first collection, the same excuse, but for further information on this 

 case, cf. pp. 123-124. 



*See app., 323-326; 356-358, for examples. 



