Juan de Medina, De la orden que en algunos pueblos de Espana se ha puesto en la limosna (1545)

The printed defence of the Castilian towns that had replaced street begging with a municipal alms fund. Its author advised the reform at Zamora, was ordered to set down his grounds, and answers the theologians who attacked it: nobody should need to beg, and freedoms held by natural right may be withdrawn for the public good. He also reports asking the city's poor, on two Saturdays in February, whether they preferred the ration to begging - and records what happened to the two who said no.