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192                    History of the Kingdom

galleys, or to the mines, where they are taught by whipping to do what reason and remonstrances cannot do. If there are also some vagabons who have no proof of the place from where they come and where they are going, or who have not fallen ill on the roads, or in other similar disasters, they are apprehended and treated in the same way as the lazy: If also there is reason to ask for a pass, they must apply to the hospital house, where they are treated and put to bed, and thus they go their way to the place where they must go, without it being lawful for them to turn aside from their path under penalty of incurring the penalties above: If they are ill, they are considered and helped just as the inhabitants of the place.
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Hospitals both in the capital cities and in the kingdoms.

                               CHAP. XIII.

      IN all the cities and villages there are hospitals larger or smaller according to the number of people and the convenience of the places.

                                                       Those

1. Page reads 62, should be 68.


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