_Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum_, II., p. 556. (For Maimed Soldiers and Widows of Scotland and Ireland, Sept 30, 1651.) The Justices in the North Riding of Yorkshire drew up a scale of reasonable prices for billeted soldiers by which each trooper was to pay for his own meat for each night—6d; dragoon, 4½d; foot soldier, 4d.[126] Footnote 126: _Yorks. North Riding, Q.S. Rec._, Vol. VII., p. 106, 1690. “Edward Malin, blacksmith, now fourscore and three past and his wife fourscore, wanting a quarter” very poor and unable “to gett anything whereby to live,” complained to the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions that they receive only 1s. 6d. a week between them; “others have eighteen pence apiece single persons” and desire that an order be made for them to have 3s. together which is but the allowance made to other persons.[127] Footnote 127: _Hertfordshire, Co. Rec._, Vol. I., p. 258, 1675. In cases of Poor Relief where payments were generally intended to be supplementary to other sources of income, the grants to widows towards the maintenance of their children were often absurdly small; in Yorkshire, Parish officers were ordered to “provide convenient habitation for a poor woman as they shall think fit and pay her 4d. weekly for the maintenance of herself and child.”[128] In another case to pay a very poor widow 6d. weekly for the maintenance of herself and her three children.[129] The allowance of 12d. weekly to a woman and her small children was reduced to 6d., “because the said woman is of able body, and other of her children are able to work.”[130] On the other hand when an orphan child was given to strangers to bring up, amounts varying from 1s. to 5s. per week were paid for its maintenance.[131] Footnote 128: _Yorks. N.R. Q.S. Rec._, Vol. VI., p. 242, 1675. Footnote 129: _Ibid._ p. 217, 1674. Footnote 130: _Ibid._ p. 260, 1674. Footnote 131: Joane Weekes ... “hadd a maide childe placed to her to bee kept & brought upp, the mother of which Childe was executed at the Assizes, six pounds per ann, proporconed toward the keepinge of the said childe ... besides she desireth some allowance extraordinary for bringinge the said Childe to bee fitt to gett her livinge.” (_Somerset, Q.S. Rec._, Vol. III, p. 28-9, 1647).