Thus in (1513) Jan. 14, the following entry is made: "Edm. Danby at this Court declared that he had given to the Town lands and tenem^{ts} in vallew 6^{li} p annu' to the end that they should discharge the poore commonalty of the Towne of all dismes, quinziemes and charges w^{ch} shall happen: the lands doe lye in Rushmere." Bacon's _Annals of Ipswich_, p. 186. Mr Henry Tooley, Portman of Ipswich, in a will dated Nov. 4, 1550 bequeathed: £100 to the repairing of Bone Bridge. £20 to the amending of the Haven. £100 towards repairing and amending certain highways. 20_s._ to every maid who is fatherless and poor and shall marry within Ipswich until £60 should be spent. An Indenture of 1513 recites that a Mr Drayle left £70 in order to release natives and foreigners from certain tolls &c. Ipswich, _Gifts and Legacies_, pp. 1 and 168. [306] 1 James I. c. 31. But the fourth regulation of this kind is the most important. It was passed in 1609-10 and concerned the building of Houses of Correction. The Bill introduced on this subject in 1597 had been rejected after much dispute and discussion and in its place the statute "on rogues" had been hastily passed; this had repealed all the old regulations concerning Houses of Correction and although it gave the justices the power of levying a rate for the establishment of such institutions it had not compelled them to use the power. The law therefore on this point was much less exacting in its requirements than that which had previously been in force. The new enactment of 1609-10 therefore provided that one or more Houses of Correction must be erected within every county. It is here laid down that these houses were to be used to set "rogues or such other idle persons on worke," and no mention is made of the deserving unemployed[307]. This therefore probably marks the time when Houses of Correction ceased to be half workhouses and became very much more like gaols. [307] 7 James I. c. 4. Thus while the law of 1601 is the basis on which relief was given during the period, additional provision was made during the next ten years for the assistance of maimed soldiers and of persons infected with plague, and for the building of Houses of Correction[308]. [308] The following are other statutes concerning the relief of the poor and passed during the period 1597 to 1644: 1 James I. c. 7. Removes the exemption of glassmen from the statute of rogues. States that no licence by a nobleman shall exempt players and provides for the branding and in certain cases for the death of dangerous rogues. 1 James I. c. 25. Continues 43 Eliz. c. 2 and provides that masters may retain the pauper apprentices whom the Overseers have bound to them. 7 James I. c. 3. Enacts various provisions with the object of securing that funds which had been left to bind poor children apprentices shall be properly employed.