[1] The maior not onelie ioiouslie receiued this let|ter, but with all spéed agreed to set forward this mat|ter, for he also fauoured it verie much. And the next daie being mondaie,The readines of the lord ma|ior to prefer this good déed. he desired the bishop of London to dine with him: and against that time, the maior promised that he would send for such men, as he thought méetest to talke of this matter, and so he did. And sent first for two aldermen and six commoners, and afterward were appointed more, to the number of foure and twentie. And in the end after sundrie méetings (for by meane of the good diligence of the bishop it was well followed) they agréed vpon a booke that they had deuised, wherein first they consi|dered of nine speciall kinds and sorts of poore people, and those same they brought in these thrée degrees: