 | Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 630 pages
...the public. It is not my intention to found any part of the plan proposed on the existing poor laws, but rather to anticipate their speedy extinction,...still more deplorable, and augmented the number of mendicants.1 To what an extremity 1 " It is curious,'' says Dr. Burns, in his History of the Poor Laws,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1823 - 572 pages
...The Mirrour," as quoted by the above writer, that, by the common law, the poor were " to be sustained by parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners; so that none of them die for default of sustenance." rejected in Justinian's Collection." We find Blackstone, therefore, virtually recognizing... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - 1824 - 190 pages
...benefactors f." And by The Mirrour, we find, that " by the common law the poor were to be sustained by parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners ; so that none of them die for default of sustenance ;" and this, it is apprehended, is the law which would enforce the relief of the poor of... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...Christians. For though it appears by the mirrour ', that by the common law the poor were to be " sustained by " parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners ; so " that none of them die for default of sustenance;" and though by the statutes 12 Ric.II. c. 7. and 19 Hen. VII. c. 12. the poor are directed... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 660 pages
...Christians. For though it appears by the mirrour ', that by the common law the poor were to be " sustained by " parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners ; so " that none of them die for default of sustenance;" and though by the statutes 12 Ric. II. c. 7. and 1 9 Hen. VII. c. 12. the poor are directed... | |
 | 1825 - 666 pages
...of well disposed Christians ;" and that though, " by the common law, the poor were to be sustained by parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners, so that none of them die for default of sustenance," " he finds no compulsory method chalked out for this purpose, but the poor seem to have... | |
 | Rowland Dobie - 1829 - 472 pages
...benevolence entirely. " For although," says Blackstone, " by the common law the poor were to be sustained by parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners ; so that none of them die for default of sustenance, and though by the statutes 12th of Richard II. chap. 7, and 19th Henry VII. cap. 12, the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 pages
...beggar able to work. It appears by the Mirror, that at the common law, the poor were to be ' sustained by parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners; so that none of them die for default of sustenance.' And by stats. 15 Rich. II., cap. 6 ;4 Hen. IV., cap. 12, impropriators were obliged to... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1831 - 1094 pages
...For though it appears by the Mirrour, that by the tlons. common law the poor were to be ' sustained by parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners, so that none of them die for default of sustenance;' and though by the statute 12 R. II. c. 7, and 19 Hen. VII. c. 12, the poor are directed... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1849 - 764 pages
...Christians. For though it appears by the Mirrour, that by the common law the poor were to be sustained by parsons, rectors of the Church, and the parishioners, so that none of them die for want of sustenance; and though by the Statute 12th Richard H., cap. 7, and the 19th Henry VH., cap.... | |
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For though it appears by the mirrour ', that by the common law the poor were to be " sustained by " parsons, rectors of the church, and the parishioners ; so " that none of them die for default of sustenance;" and though by the statutes 12 Ric.II. 
