Seasonable orders offered from former precedents whereby the price of corn, with all sorts of other grain may be much abated, to the great benefit of all, especially the poor of this nation. Published for the general good.

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Title: Seasonable orders offered from former precedents whereby the price of corn, with all sorts of other grain may be much abated, to the great benefit of all, especially the poor of this nation. Published for the general good.
Publication: London :: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angel in Corn-hill,; 1662.
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No waste of Bread Corn superfluously, nor any expense thereof but for feeding of people.

That the Justices use all other good means possible that are not men∣tioned in these orders, that the Markets may be well served, and the poor relieved in their provisions during this time of dearth. And that no expence of any Grain meet for bread to feed men, be wasted upon feeding of dogs or other beasts, neither that any be spent in making stuffe called Starch, as of late there hath been discovered great quantity expended in that vain matter, being in no sort to be suffered to continue, the rather also for that there are other things not hurtful to the food of man, that may serve for such purposes, if such purposes at least were requisite.