A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor

Sir Matthew Hale SL (1 November 1609 — 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict Puritan, and inherited his faith. In 1626 he matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, (now Hertford College) intending to become a priest, but after a series of d...