CHAPTER I.
THE BEGINNING OF THE SECULAR CONTROL OF POOR RELIEF.
§ 1. Anglo-Saxon times. § 2. The Labour statutes. § 3. The control of charitable funds by the state. § 4. The control of charitable funds by the towns. § 5. Summary of the main features of public control of poor-relief before the sixteenth century
pp. [1-10]
CHAPTER II.
THE CAUSES OF THE REORGANISATION OF POOR RELIEF.
§ 1. Increase of vagrants. § 2. Reasons for increase of beggars. § 3. Old methods of charity. § 4. Attempts to reorganise charitable funds on the Continent. § 5. Three factors in the making of the English system of poor relief
pp. [11-21]
CHAPTER III.
1514—1569.