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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now after this good order taken, and the citizens by such meanes as were deuised, willing to further the same, the report therof was made vnto the kings maiestie: and his grace for the aduancement here|of, was not onelie willing to grant such as should be the ouerséers and gouernors of the said houses a cor|poration and authoritie for the gouernement there|of: but also required that he might be accounted as the chiefe founder and patrone thereof.K. Edward the sixt foun|der of the hos|pitals in Lõ|don. And for the furtherance of the said worke, and continuall main|tenance of the same, he of his méere mercie and good|nesse granted, that where before certeine lands were giuen to the maintenance of the house of the Sa|uoie, founded by king Henrie the seuenth, for the lod|ging of pilgrims and strangers, and that the same was now made but a lodging of loiterers, vaga|bonds, and strumpets that laie all daie in the fields, and at night were harboured there, the which was rather the maintenance of beggerie, than the reliefe of the poore, gaue the same lands, being first surren|dred into his hands by the maister and fellowes there (which lands were of the yearelie value of six hundred pounds) vnto the citie of London, for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid.