The foundation is the Six Poor Travellers House in Rochester. I'm assuming these weren't people who were culturally nomadic like Roma. My understanding was that in Tudor England there were theoretically penalties to poor people moving about without some kind of authorisation, although maybe I'm misunderstanding. Would something like this be aimed at people travelling for business? Were there classes of vagrants even at that time who would travel around and look for hospitality where they could find it?
I'm also curious about the rule against "proctors" - the Wikipedia article suggests it's unclear what exactly the reasoning behind it was and it was an obscure local thing but also as a wider question if they were a kind of lawyer how likely was it that they'd even be poor?
The website of the charity has an explanation of this :
“At least one mystery, however, has been solved: the reason why Richard Wattes in 1579 excluded proctors along with rogues from a night's lodging in the Six Poor Travellers' House. The 16th century definition of a proctor was enshrined in legislation of 1 Edward VI in 1547 as one licensed to collect alms on behalf of lepers who were prohibited from begging for themselves. Due to the possibilities for fraudsters to abuse this system, Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) classified rogues, idle persons and "all proctors that go up and downe with counterfeit licences" as the "thriftless poor", undeserving of aid from parish officers.”