[214] There is a statement of the accounts of St John's, Walbrook, between Sept. 10th, 1572 and Sept. 11th, 1573. From this we learn that the collectors received £16. 17_s._ 5_d._, and that £1. 6_s._ 8_d._ was lacking of the assessed sum. £5. 3_s._ 4_d._ had been paid to the poor of the parish, £9. 15_s._ 9_d._ to the Treasurer of Christ's Hospital, while the collectors owed the remaining 18_s._ 4_d._ _Cal. of State Papers_, Addenda, Sept. 11th, 1573. So far as this parish is concerned therefore the amount paid to the central authorities was much greater than that distributed in local pensions. The City rulers also attempted to deal with the poor all over London by an organisation founded upon a series of orders or articles for the poor. In 1576 a set of regulations was issued dealing with the duties of "the parish," of the "constables" and of "surveyors" with regard to vagrants. The parishioners were to choose a surveyor every Sunday who was to attend every night for a week and help the constable in the search for sturdy beggars. Every fortnight at least the constable, beadle and churchwardens were to visit the houses of all the poor people in their districts and were to order any of the new arrivals who were unable to support themselves without burdening the parish to be sent away[215]. These commands only concerned vagrants and new comers and are of far less importance than the regulations of 1579. [215] _Journals_, Vol. XX., No. 2, f. 323. In that year orders were issued which if carried out would have provided methods for dealing with all classes of the poor and, but for the Elizabethan phrases and Elizabethan whippings, we should be much more inclined to think that they were passed by a London County Council in 1899, than by the Corporation of the City in 1579. In August of that year the Common Council resolved that "an Acte for the poore" should be drawn up and considered, and a few days later the book was read to the Council and "established as a lawe[216]." [216] _Ib._ f. 498, 499 b, Aug. 4th, 1579. These orders have been printed, and are often dated 1587. But they were first established in 1579 under the title of "Orders appointed to be executed in the Cittie of London for setting roges and idle persons to worke and for releefe of the poor."