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An ease for overseers of the poore abstracted from the statutes, allowed by practise, and now reduced into forme, as a necessarie directorie for imploying, releeuing, and ordering of the poore. With an easie and readie table for recording the number, names, ages, exercises and defects of the poore, fit to be obserued of the ouerseers in euery parish. Also hereunto is annexed a prospect for rich men to induce them to giue, and a patterne for poore men to prouoke them to labour, very pertinent to the matter. The principall heads hereof appeare in the next page.

Title:An ease for overseers of the poore abstracted from the statutes, allowed by practise, and now reduced into forme, as a necessarie directorie for imploying, releeuing, and ordering of the poore. With an easie and readie table for recording the number, names, ages, exercises and defects of the poore, fit to be obserued of the ouerseers in euery parish. Also hereunto is annexed a prospect for rich men to induce them to giue, and a patterne for poore men to prouoke them to labour, very pertinent to the matter. The principall heads hereof appeare in the next page.
Note:[London] : Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1601
  
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Subject:Poor laws -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Subject:Public welfare -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
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