 | John McMaster - 1916 - 516 pages
...was no satisfactory statutory law for the relief of the poor till the Overseers Act of 1601, though by the common law the poor were to be sustained by...the church and parishioners, so that none of them should die for want of sustenance; and by 15 Richard II. and 4 Henry IV. c. 12, impropriators were... | |
 | 1854 - 706 pages
...Mirror of Justice, a treatise upon the law of England, as it existed at the time of Edward II., affirms that by the common law, the poor were to be sustained...the church, and parishioners, so that none of them should die for lack of food. It is not easy to perceive upon what principle of law the ministers of... | |
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THE poor of England, till the time of Hen. VIII., subsisted entirely upon private benevolence, and the charity of welldisposed Christians. For though it appears by the mirrour ', that by the common law the poor were to be " sustained by " parsons, rectors... 
