MEDIÆVAL SCENES--FEEDING THE POOR AT THE MONASTERY GATE
... AIEDIJEVAL SCENES-- FEEDING THE POOR AT THE MONASTERY GATE. IN his first sermon before King Edward VI., Latimer said, Abbeys were ordained for the comfort of the poor. And in the days when there were no poor laws-- in our sense of the word-- and no workhouses, the greatest relief the poor of every kind received, was, no doubt, from the alms and food given at the gales of the abbeys and ...