=Source.=--_Diary of Walter Yonge, Esq._ Camden Society's
Publications. P. 52.
About this time there were assembled about 400 poor people in
Wiltshire complaining in peaceable manner to the justices that they
could get no work to relieve themselves, and therefore did desire
that order might be taken for their relief: all trades are grown so
bad that there is not any employment. It is said also that the like
insurrection was in Gloucestershire, and thereupon the Lords of the
Council sent forth letters into divers shires for the setting of poor
people on work.
It is said that merchants are enjoined to buy a quantity of clothes
weekly at Blackwel Hall in London, or otherwise they shall be
disfranchised of their liberties and freedom of merchants in London.