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The Early History of English Poor Relief

Note 41 — Chapter II

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2 Hen. V. Stat. I. c. 1. In the Complaynt of Roderyck Mors the writer asserts the existence of a similar evil: "I heare that the masters of your hospytals be so fatt that the poore be kept leane and bare inough," p. 52. Edition of E. E. T. S.

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