Chapter XI: The First Poor Law Act, pages 125-132

First Poor Law Act, 125. Total annual revenue of all the monastic
estates, 125. Cromwell’s advice to the King, among whom to divide
the monastic properties, 121. Owners of monastic lands to maintain
hospitality, 126. Blackstone on the support of the poor prior to
27 Henry VIII., 127. Blackstone quotes the “Mirror” in support of
the common law claim of the poor to a part of the tithes, 127. Lord
Selborne’s argument answered, that the part allotted to the poor
out of tithes would now be insufficient for their maintenance, 127.
Sir Simon Degge says: “The poor have a share in the tithes.” Lord
Selborne’s criticism on this statement, 129. Who _Anthony Harmer_
was, 129. Sir Simon Degge’s legal position and antecedents, 130. Lord
Selborne quotes from a garbled edition of the “Parson’s Counsellor,”
130, 131. The Acts which gave poor a portion of the tithes, 131.
Elizabeth’s Act, 131. How rectors closed upon all the tithes, 132.