Orders of this kind continued to be issued throughout the reigns of Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I., but these of January 1586/7 were thought to have the best effect and were reprinted and reissued in 1594[739]. They thus seem to be the original form of the scarcity Book of Orders which apparently afterwards suggested the Book of Orders for the relief of the Poor of Jan. 1630/1. [739] See above, p. 119. A few of the later clauses only of this draft relate directly to the relief of the poor, and the general character of the instructions given in these contrast strongly with the detailed directions dealing with the supply of grain. This bears out the contention that at this time the direct relief of the poor was only subsidiary to the indirect relief afforded to the poorer classes by these measures for the supply of corn: it also indicates that the interference of the Privy Council in the direct relief of the poor was suggested by the distress and disorder of these years of high-priced grain, and was begun at least as early as 1587, as one of the methods which were adopted to relieve that distress. Lansdowne MSS. 48, f. 128, No. 54, 27 Decembris 1586. _Orders devised by y^e speciall comma(n)ddment of y^e Qu. Ma^{ty} for y^e releiff and ease of y^e present derth of gray(ne) w^hin y^e realme[740]._ [740] The portion printed in italics is written in Burleigh's own hand. That the Sheriffe and Justices of the peace _by spedy warni(n)g of y^e shyrriff_ shall ymediatlie vppon the receipte of these _orders_[741] assemble themselues togeather, w^{th} as much speede as they possible maye, and havinge conferred amongest them selves vppon the contents hereof, shall first for the better execucon of _the same_ devide them selves into sondry companies and take amongest them _into ther chardg by_ seu(er)all divisions _all_ the hundreds, rapes or wapentaks of the said countie. [741] "Instruccons" is deleted.