At one time, moreover, an attempt was made to limit the export from county to county and to regulate the supply by means of licenses. Thus the bakers of London were to have the right of purchase for twenty miles round the City; Bristol had special license to buy in other markets and import by sea. Gloucester, Exeter, and London were allowed to buy in Cornwall, Tewkesbury in Pembroke, Carmarthen and Portsmouth in the Isle of Wight[338]. But this system of licensing proved insufficient, and in April 1631 the justices of the home counties received general orders to remember that the transport of corn from one shire into another was not forbidden[339]. The Government then recurred to the Books of Orders which were drawn up in 1587, and had been re-enforced in every season of scarcity since that time. In Sept. 1630 these orders were amended and reissued by Charles I.[340]; it is to this Book of Orders that the corn reports of the justices refer[341]. These Orders we have seen work through the justices, and require justices' reports. In fact they establish the organisation for the provision of corn that was afterwards used for the relief of the poor. [338] _Privy Council Register_, 12th Nov. 1630, ff. 169, 181. [339] _Ib._, April 2nd, f. 431. [340] _Proc. Bk._, Chas. I., No. 134. _Privy Council Reg._, 9th Sept. 1630, f. 97. [341] See Scarcity Reports of 1630, e.g. _Dom. S. P._ Chas. I., Vol. 176, Nos. 1, 18, 55, 57; Vol. 177, Nos. 31, 32, 43 etc.; Vol. 192, No. 19. One other method of the central Government is perhaps worth noting. Other laws connected with the poor were enforced, such as those relating to the suppression of beggars and the labour laws. But these times of famine were especially the times when inquiries were made about enclosures. The enclosing of land necessarily excited opposition when there was not corn enough. There were riots in Northampton and in other places in 1607-8, and in 1631 "a large number of rebels" pulled down fences in Braydon Forest[342]. A great inquiry was made into the whole subject in 1609, and in 1631 also the justices return a few special reports upon enclosures, and sometimes make their answer a part of the report concerning the poor. In Appletree, Derby, very little land had been lately enclosed "for that the greatest parte of this hundred hath been enclosed long since[343]," but in other cases a few new fences had been erected[344]. There is enough to show that even in 1631 enclosures continued to be made and continued to excite the old opposition. [342] _Cal. of State Papers_, June 10, 1631. [343] _D. S. P._, Chas. I., Vol. 185, No. 41. [344] _D. S. P._, Vol. 192, Nos. 24, 93, 94.