[Footnote 1:]

Or Henry Martyn?

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[Footnote 2:]

Surveyor-general of Ireland to Charles II. See his

Discourse of Taxes

(1689).

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[Footnote 3:]

Our idle poor till the time of Henry VIII. lived upon alms. After the dissolution of the monasteries experiments were made for their care, and by a statute 43 Eliz. overseers were appointed and Parishes charged to maintain their helpless poor and find work for the sturdy. In Queen Anne's time the Poor Law had been made more intricate and troublesome by the legislation on the subject that had been attempted after the Restoration.