English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon.
- John Simon
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![which were passed in relation, on the one hand, to the Chap. v. 'Pnrlnr impotent Poor, and, on the other hand, to Mendicants and Legisia- Vagrants. tion- During the centuries of ecclesiastical supremacy in England, previous there had been no need to press by statute on the well-to-do for the ° classes that they should give relief to destitution. The stationary pooF' ^ JO J against dis- poor seem to have had some sort of legal claim on lords of honest beg- manors ; but, apart from this, in every parish of the country, the parson had (or was supposed to have) means in trust for them. This parochial trust seems to have been implied, or perhaps had been ecclesiastically regulated, from the earliest days of the Church; and the first mention of it in the statute-book is not to enact, but to recite it. Edward the Third's Statute of Provisors, referring to the Carlisle Statute of Edward the First (35th year), recites from it, that the Holy Church of England was founded in the estate of prelacy within the realm of England by the said King [Edward the First] and his progenitors, and the earls barons and other nobles of his said realm and their ancestors, to inform them and the people of the law of God, and to make hospitalities, alms, and other works of charity, in the places where the churches were founded ; and that certain possessions, as well in fees, lands, rents, as in advowsons, which do extend to a great value, were assigned by the said founders to the prelates and other people of the Holy Church of the said realm to sustain the same charge.* Afterwards, by § vi of the Act of the fifteenth year of Richard the Second, law was made that every parish should have its trust-money for the above pur- poses secured to it: viz.— In every licence from henceforth to be made in the Chancery of the appropriation of any parish church, it shall be expressly contained and comprised that the diocesan of the place, upon the appropriation of such churches, shall ordain, according to the value of such churches, a convenient sum of money to be paid and distributed yearly of the fruits and profits of the same churches, by those that shall have the said churches in proper use, and by their successors, to the poor * With regard to that recital by Edward III, it may be noted that the language of Edward the First's statute mentions only monasteries and other special foundations, and does not appear to speak (as the recital does) of the Church of England in general.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21077927_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
