Abstract
umented are those of the cities of Nuremberg in Germany (1522), Ypres in the Low Countries (1525), and Lyon in France (1531-34).' The welfare ordinances of these tlhree cities were ptublished, in several editions and in several languages? and pamphlets were issued further explaining and justifying them. These reforms, moreover, influenced the policies not only of other cities, but also of royal governments. The imperial edict on poor relief in the Low Countries, promulaated in, 1531 by the government of Charles v, was based on preliminary study of the municipal reforms of Mons, Ypres, and Audenaerde, and it in turn stimulated the reforms of other cities such as Brussels.2 The Englishl statute on poor relief, promulgated by the government of fHenry viii in 15,36, was based on a draft very likely prepared by the man who translated the Ypres ordinance into English.3 And
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