Vagrant, Masterless, and poore people.
1. That all such as be diseased be sent to St. Thomas or St. Bartylmewes hospitall, there to be first cured and made cleane, and afterwards those which be not of the Cyttye to be sent awaie according to the statute in that case provided, and the other to be sett to worke, in such trades as are least used by the Inhabitants of the Cyttye, for the avoyding[73] of all such vagrant persons, as well children male and female, soldiers lame and maymed, as other idle and loytering persons that swarme in the streets and wander up and downe begging, to the great daunger and infecting of the Cyttye for th’increase of the plague and annoyance to the same.
2. That all maisterlesse men who live idlie in the Cyttye without any lawfull calling, frequenting places of common assemblies, as Interludes, gaming houses, cockpitts, bowling allies, and such other places, may be banished the Cyttye according to the laws in that case provyded.
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All which orders aforesaid the Aldermen and their deputies are every one in their place to see performed, both in themselves and others, and in cases of doubt to yield their opinions and gyve directions.
(Endorsed) Orders to be set down of the Lord Mayor.
For repressing of disorders and relief of the poor.
A PESSIMIST ON THE AGE.
Source.—Roger Ascham: The Scholemaster, 1570. Ed. Mayor.
Italianate Englishmen.