§ 1. The methods by which the scarcity orders of the Privy Council were executed in 1623 and 1630-1: (_a_) the suppression of alehouses and restriction of malting; (_b_) the regulations for serving the markets with corn; (_c_) selling corn to labourers under price; (_d_) other methods of providing food for the poor. § 2. Evidence as to the success or failure of the corn regulations. § 3. Reasons for adopting them. § 4. Bearing of the scarcity measures on the history of poor relief, (_a_) because of the growth of organisation; (_b_) as an indication of the standard of life of the poorer classes. § 5. Provision of fuel for the poor in winter. § 6. Help afforded in times of plague and sickness. § 7. Contributions to sufferers from fire. § 8. Two characteristics of seventeenth century poor relief: (_a_) little distinction between paupers and non-paupers; (_b_) little distinction between relief afforded by voluntary contributions and that provided by poor rates pp. 184-205 B. _Ordinary relief._ α. _Impotent Poor._ § 1. Almshouses and endowed charities. § 2. Relief for the old from county and parochial rates. β. _Children._ § 3. Apprenticeship. § 4. Schools for little children and orphanages. γ. _Able-bodied poor._ § 5. Relief given to prisoners. § 6. Provision of funds to provide work for the unemployed. § 7. Methods of providing work: (_a_) Stocks used to employ the poor in their homes; (_b_) Introduction of new trades; (_c_) Workhouses and Jersey schools; (_d_) Bridewells; (_e_) Emigration; (_f_) Pressure on employers; (_g_) Advancement of capital without interest pp. 206-236 CHAPTER XII. 1597-1644. THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE POOR LAW AS A WHOLE. § 1. Importance of the period 1597-1644. § 2. Negligent administration of the Poor Law in the North and extreme West. § 3. Administration in the rest of England varied with the action of the Privy Council. § 4. Action of the Privy Council and administration between 1597 and 1605. § 5. Action of the Privy Council and administration between 1605 and 1629. § 6. Action of the Privy Council and administration between 1629 and 1644. § 7. Improvement effected in 1631 especially concerned the unemployed. § 8. Detailed report from Bassetlaw. § 9. Provision for the unemployed (_a_) in the North and extreme West; (_b_) in the towns; (_c_) in the Western counties; (_d_) in the Eastern counties. § 10. Summary pp. 237-266 CHAPTER XIII. POOR RELIEF IN FRANCE, SCOTLAND, AND ENGLAND DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND COMMONWEALTH.