[198] _Journals_, 14 May, 1579, XX. No. 2, f. 483. "This daye the residue of the Booke devised for the settinge of the poore on worke in Bridewell was redd to the Comon Counsell." ... It was agreed "that it shabe, as it is preferred to the consideracon of the lordes of your ma^{tys} pryvie Counsell by the whole concent of this Court of Comon Counsell and that Sir Rowlande Haywarde, Sir James Hawes, Mr Alderman Woodcross, etc. shall travell in preferringe the same booke to the lordes of the Counsell." 17 Nov. 1594, _Remembrancia_, II. 74. [199] _Journals_, 21 f. 329 _b_, 28 Dec. 1583. [200] _Remembrancia_, I. 495, 496, 514; II. 17. [201] _Ib._, II. 75. [202] _Ib._, II. 59. The Council thus was apparently very well informed as to the condition of affairs and had power to interfere with effect even in matters of detail whenever the rulers of London were inclined to be slothful. [Sidenote: 9. The pressure exercised by the Privy Council on other local authorities.] We have not the same detailed information with regard to other towns, but we can see that this kind of action on the part of the Lords of the Council was by no means confined to London. We find them writing to Burghley himself and insisting on the appointment of Provost Marshals in Hertfordshire and Essex who were to take especial care to repress vagrants and idle persons[203]; they rebuke the Devonshire justices for not providing properly for old soldiers and sailors[204]. They write to Cambridge and order that care be taken to prevent the increase in the number of tenements in the town[205], and they especially commend the Norfolk justices for erecting a "fourme for the punishment of loyterers, stubborne servantes, and the settinge of vagabondes, roages and other idle people to work, after the manner of Bridewell[206]". [203] _Cal. of State Papers_, March 17, 1590. [204] _Quarter Sessions under Queen Eliz._, A. Hamilton, p. 19.