Compare 1577 edition: 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:
Degrées of poore.Thrée degrées of poore.
- The poore by impotencie.
- Poore by casualtie.
- Thriftlesse poore.
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- 1 The poore by impotencie are also diuided in|to three kinds, that is to saie:
- 1 The fatherlesse poore mans child.
- 2 The aged, blind, and lame.
- 3 The diseased person, by le|prosie, dropsie, &c.
- 2 The poore by casualtie are of thrée kinds, that is to saie:
- 4 The wounded souldier.
- 5 The decaied housholder.
- 6 The visited with gréeuous disease.
- 3 The thriftles poore are three kinds in like wise, that is to saie:
- 7 The riotor that consumeth all.
- 8 The vagabond that will a|bide in no place.
- 9 The idle person, as the strumpet and others.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 For these sorts of poore were prouided thrée seuerall houses. First for the innocent and fatherlesse,Christes hos|pitall. which is the beggers child, and is in déed the séed and bree|der of beggerie, they prouided the house that was late Graie friers in London, and now is called Chri|stes hospitall, where the poore children are trained in the knowledge of God, and some vertuous e [...]ercise to the ouerthrowe of beggerie.S Thomas hospitall. For the second de|grée is prouided the hospitall of saint Thomas in Southworke, & saint Bartholomew in west Smith|field, where are continuallie at least two hundred diseased persons, which are not onelie there lodged and cured, but also fed and nourished.Bridewell. For the third degrée they prouided Bridewell, where the vaga|bond and idle strumpet is chastised and compelled to labour, to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes. They prouided also for the honest decaied housholder,Reliefe for the decaied house|holder and lazer. that he should be relieued at home at his house, and in the parish where he dwelled by a wéekelie reliefe and pension. And in like manner they prouided for the lazer to kéepe him out of the citie from clapping of dishes, and ringing of bels, to the great trouble of the citizens, and also to the dangerous infection of manie, that they should be relieued at home at their houses with seuerall pensions.