_Cambridge._ Hundreds of Cheveley, Staploe, Staine and Flendish (formerly all in Cambs.), "Item wee find upon our inquiry that the seuerall towne Stockes within o^r diuision are orderly imployed and accounted for and the poore of the seueral parishes sett one worke and imployed therin according to the Lawe." Vol. 285, 99. March, 1635. Chesterton, Papworth and North Stowe. 216, 45. See App. XII. Radfield, Chilford and Whittlesford. Vol. 395, 114, and Cambridge borough. See above. In a district of Middlesex the unemployed were sent to fight for Gustavus Adolphus[638], but in most parishes materials were provided for them to work up. Thus in several hundreds in Kent "stocks of materialls" were provided in every parish[639]; in Nottinghamshire those out of service and able to work were set to work "on the towne stock[640]," while at Horncastle sessions, in Lincolnshire, the justices take "special care ... that the abler sort bee constantly sett on worke by the stocke of the parishe[641]." Sometimes the sum expended was very considerable if we take into account the great difference in the value of money. Thus in Wallington, Surrey, more than £120 was used for providing work, while nearly fifty pounds remained in hand[642]. On the whole therefore in the eastern counties, between 1631 and 1640, it seems that considerable sums of money were raised and employed in most districts[643] with the object of setting to work the able-bodied poor. [638] 24th Oct. 1631. _Ib._, Vol. 202, 20. Report for Clerkenwell, S^t Sepulchre, S^t Giles, Islington, Finchley, Friarne, etc. "There is alsoe in the house of Correccon a manufacture prepared and by a charitable stocke of a hundred pounds given by S^r John Fenner Knight nowe in readynes an Artizan, who hath Articled and agreed w^{th} vs to take, instructe & bringe vp in the saide manufacture as apprentices twenty poore orphans boyes and Girles such as before wandred in the streetes and weare readie to perishe for wante of imployment." "Many idle and loose persons haue byn lately imployed and sent to serue under his ma^{tie} of Sweden and such others as are taken up in watches or Privie Searches w^{th}in o^r division are continually settled in some course of life or sent to the howse of Correccon." See also Appendix XII. [639] Ruxley, Little, Lesnex, Axton, and the vill of Dartford and Wilmington. _D. S. P._, Chas. I., Vol. 220, 14. July 4th, 1632. [640] _Ib._, Vol. 272, 40. July, 1634. [641] _Ib._, Vol. 349, 113. March, 1636/7. [642] _D. S. P._, Vol. 315, 25. March, 1635. "Item. Money disbursed } to set the poore on woorke. } cxxii^{li} iijs. Itm. Moneys in stocke for the settinge of the poore to worke. xxxxvii^{li}." [643] The following are instances in which work for the poor was provided in some district in every other eastern county: