223. _Pauper's Badge, Meaning of._--In the Churchwarden's Accounts for
the parish of Eye for the year 1716, is the following entry:
"22 July, 1716.
"It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibbons _hath refused to
weare the badge_, that she should not be allowed the collection
[_i.e._ the weekly parish allowance] now due, nor for the future
w'h shall be due."
Can any correspondent inform me what this _badge_ was, and also if it
was of general use in other places?