[448] (1) Herts.: Edwinstree and Odsey. The poor were relieved at under rates in their parishes. Vol. 182, 40, _D. S. P._, Chas. I. Braughin, 189, 80, _D. S. P._, Chas. I. See Appendix. Part of the Liberty of St Alban's and hundred of Cashio, 188, 43, _D. S. P._, Chas. I. Hertford. The poor are relieved by "corne or otherwise," 189, 79, _D. S. P._, Chas. I. (2) Sussex: Lewes, Vol. 189, 15. "Some charitable well-disposed persons sell to the poore at lower rates." Pevensey, Vol. 192, 99. The justices "dealt w^{th} the most substantiall inhabitants ... who partly by the perswasions of us and of theire ministers and of theire owne charytable disposition haue laid corne in some one parish about 30 pounds, in another 20 pounds some lese," and have sold it one shilling a bushel "better cheape than itt did cost." (3) Kent: Shepway, Vol. 187, 40. The parishes have provided a store of corn for their own inhabitants. (4) Suffolk: The Liberty of St Ethelred's, Vol. 187, 10. A supply of corn was to be brought from Norfolk and sold to the poor 4_s._ a quarter under cost price. (5) Cambridge: Staploe, Cheveley, Staine and Flendish, Vol. 189, 81, III. (6) Berks.: Wantage and Farringdon, Vol. 191, 40, I. and III. (7) Nottingham: charitable selling under price, Vol. 189, 12. (8) Surrey: Rye was sold to the "poorer sorte" at 5_s._ the bushel, _Dom. S. P._, Vol. 182, 7. It is most probable that the poor were relieved in this way in many other parishes though the justices' reports may not have been returned or preserved. [449] We hear in Nov. 1630 of Ireland that "that kingdome is for the present so plentifully stored w^{th} corne that besides the feeding of itselfe it may also in some measure supply the necessity of this realme," _Privy Council Register_. In Cornwall, Flint and Hereford also there was plenty of grain (_D. S. P._, Chas. I., Vol. 176, No. 57, Vol. 184, No. 61, Vol. 183, 37) while the justices of Agbrigg report that "Lancashire is a county this year able to help its neighbours." [Sidenote: _d._ Other special methods of providing food for the poor.] Sometimes other plans were adopted. The owners and dealers of corn were expected to contribute to the need of their less fortunate neighbours. At Reading the corn masters set apart a sack in every load to serve for the poor at twelvepence a bushel under the market rate[450]. It would seem that some allowance was usually made by dealers in corn, for another dealer who was a victim of a riot at Woodchurch states that out of ten quarters he left five to be sold to the poor[451]. [450] _Dom. State Papers_, Chas. I., Vol. 182, 81. [451] _Ib._, Vol. 191, 4. See below for the custom of the badgers at Chipping Wycombe.