...providing for such persons in need (Rushton 1988, 1996). “Competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them” were to be set aside by the local community (43 Elizabeth 1601, cited in Axinn and Levin 1982:10)....

...money as they shall require for providing a sufficient stock of flax, hemp, wool, and other ware or stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums for the relief of the lame, blind, old, and impotent persons?” 2 As a consequence of the act of 1601, “poor...

...houses of dwelling for the impotent poor', 'putting children out to be apprentices' and the purchase of 'a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron,...and other ware and stuff, to set the poor on work' (An Act for the Relief of the Poor, 1601, cited in Bruce, 1973: 39). The cost of relief raised the...

...convenient stock of flax, to set the poor on work; and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them, being poor and not able to work.' You see how this is aimed at vagabonds as well as designed for the impotent....

...faleable Underwoods, in the Parifli, in fuch competent Sum and Sums of Money as they (hall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other Ware and Stufl-; to fee the Poor on work; and alfo competent Sums of Money for and towards the necefl'ary Relief...

...provided in private homes or at public infirmaries. The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601 addressed the issue of the "lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work" without dealing directly with health matters. The law was expanded subsequently...