4. The first Act Directing the Levy of a Compulsory Poor Rate, 1572 372 5. The first Act requiring the Unemployed to be set to Work, 1575-6 373 6. Report of Justices to Council Concerning Scarcity in Norfolk, 1586 373 7. Orders devised by the Special Commandment of the Queen's Majesty for the Relief and Ease of the Present Dearth of Grain within the Realm, 1586 374 8. The Poor Law Act, 1601 380 9. A note of the Grievances of the Parish of Eldersfield, 1618 381 10. Petition to Justices of Wiltshire for Permission to Settle in a Parish, 1618 382 11. Letter from Privy Council to Justices of Cloth-making Counties, 1621-2 382 12. Letter from Privy Council to the Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace in the Counties of Suffolk and Essex concerning the Employment of the Poor, 1629 383 13. The Licensing of Badgers in Somersetshire, 1630 385 14. Badgers Licensed at Somersetshire Quarter Sessions, 1630 385 15. The Supplying of Bristol with Grain, 1630-1 385 16. Proceedings against Engrossers and other Offenders, 1631 386 17. Order of Somersetshire Justices Granting a Settlement to a Labourer, 1630-1 386 18. Report of Derbyshire Justices on their Proceedings, 1631 387 19. Letter from Privy Council to Justices of Rutlandshire, 1631 390 20. Judgment in the Star Chamber against an Engrosser of Corn, 1631 391 SECTION V THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE 1. Letters Patent granted to the Cabots by Henry VII, 1496 400 2. The Merchant Adventurers' Case for Allowing the Export of Undressed Cloth, 1514-36 402 3. The Rise in Prices, the Encouragement of Corn growing, and the Protection of Manufactures, c. 1549 404 4. Sir Thomas Gresham on the Fall of the Exchanges, 1558 416 5. The reasons why Bullion is Exported (_temp. Eliz._) 419 6. The Italian Merchants Explain the Foreign Exchanges, 1576 420