[116] A Lyke-wake Dirge, printed by W. Allingham, The Ballad Book, 1907, no. xxxi.
[117] Latimer, The fifth Sermon on the Lord’s Prayer (in Sermons, Everyman ed., p. 336). Cf. Tyndale, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon (in Doctrinal Treatises of William Tyndale, Parker Society, 1848, p. 97): “If thy brother or neighbour therefore need, and thou have to help him, and yet showest not mercy, but withdrawest thy hands from him, then robbest thou him of his own, and art a thief.”
[118] Christopher Harvey, The Overseer of the Poor (in G. Gilfillan, The Poetical Works of George Herbert, 1853, pp. 241-3).
[119] J. E. B. Mayor, Two Lives of N. Ferrar, by his brother John and Dr. Jebb, p. 261 (quoted by B. Kirkman Gray, A History of English Philanthropy, 1905, p. 54).
[120] A True Report of the Great Cost and Charges of the foure Hospitals in the City of London, 1644 (quoted, ibid., p. 66).
[121] See, e.g., Hist. MSS. Comm., Reports on MSS. in various Collections, vol. i, 1901, pp. 109-24; Leonard, Early History of English Poor Relief, pp. 268-9.
[122] Sir Matthew Hale, A Discourse touching Provision for the Poor, 1683.
[123] Stanley’s Remedy, or the Way how to reform wandering Beggars, Thieves, Highway Robbers and Pick-pockets, 1646 (Thomason Tracts, E. 317 (6)), p. 4.
[124] Commons’ Journals, March 19, 1648/9, vol. vi, p. 167.
[125] Ibid., vol. vi, pp. 201, 374, 416, 481; vol. vii, p. 127.