This chapter discusses the nature of institutional provision for the sick, elderly and disabled poor in England before the Black Death. Open-ward hospitals for sick poor encountered similar challenges at this time, being generally ill equipped the new round of economic problems caused by the Black Death and the local, national epidemics that followed at frequent intervals thereafter. Although this trend towards privatisation ought in theory to have garnered a handsome profit that could be used to assist sick poor, in practice it tended to monopolise facilities intended for them and to consume dwindling resources. In January 1436 the wealthy and influential Exeter lawyer, William Wynard, seized the opportunity presented by the start of a new year to assess the health of his immortal soul. A manifesto circulated in London during the parliament of 1395 by followers of the religious reformer John Wycliffe attacked the diversion of hospital resources into extravagant building schemes, liturgical display prayers for the dead.
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