Excerpt from The Enforcement of the Statutes of Labourers, Vol. 32: During the First Decade After the Black Death 1349-1359 Since the supply was to be provided in part by the compulsory labour of the able-bodied vagrant, it is tme, as Cunningham points out, op. A't., i, 335, that this portion of the ordinance marks the beginning of what afterwards developed into a poor law. I am not here concerned with this later development, which was certainly not foreseen by the framers of the measure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.