Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring Into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws, Volume 1B. Fellowes, Ludgate Street, 1834 - 490 pagina's |
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able-bodied acres Actually relieved administration adopted allowance amount appears applied arable land assistant overseer bastard Bodedern burthen character child Cholesbury churchwardens complaint consequence considered Cookham cottages district ditto earnings effect employ employers employment evidence evil expense Extracts farm farmers frequently give given habits Henfield hired idle impotent impotent poor increase independent labourers industry inquiry instances justice labour-rate labouring classes land less living magistrates Majendie marriages married master means ment mode neighbouring obtain occupiers out-door relief paid parish officers parishioners parochial paupers payment persons Poor Laws poor-rate poor's-rates population portion practice present Princes Risborough principal proportion proprietor Pulborough punishment racter rate-payers refused rent Report respect ROUNDSMAN SYSTEM says scale select vestry settlement subsistence surplus labourers Sussex Swallowfield tenant tion tithes town wages week weekly whole wife woman workhouse
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Pagina 108 - Eliz. c. 2, s. 7, which provided " that the father and grandfather, and the mother and grandmother, and the children of every poor, old, blind, lame, and impotent person, or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall, at their own charges, relieve and maintain every such poor person...
Pagina 303 - Amidst these, the mothers of bastard children and prostitutes live without shame, and associate freely with the youth, who have also the examples and conversation of the frequent inmates of the county gaol, the poacher, the vagrant, the decayed beggar, and other characters of the worst description. To these may often be added a solitary blind person, one or two idiots, and not unfrequently are heard from among the rest the incessant ravings of some neglected lunatic. In such receptacles the / sick...
Pagina 118 - ... residing within such parish, or (if none be there dwelling) in the parts near or next adjoining, or by order of the justices in their respective quarter sessions, except in cases of pestilential diseases, plague or small-pox, for and in respect of such families only as are or shall be therewith infected.
Pagina 262 - ... of Elizabeth) shall be declared unlawful, and shall cease, in manner and at periods hereafter specified ; and that all relief afforded in respect of children under the age of 16, shall be considered as afforded to their parents.
Pagina 106 - Parish ; and they, or the greater Part of them, shall take Order from Time to Time, by and with the Consent of Two or more such Justices of Peace as is aforesaid...
Pagina 113 - ... to inquire into and determine upon the proper objects of relief, and the nature and amount of the relief to be given ; and in each case shall take into consideration the character and conduct of the poor person to be relieved, and shall be at liberty to distinguish, in the relief to be granted, between the deserving, and the idle, extravagant, or profligate poor...
Pagina 108 - Which Cottages and Places for Inmates shall not at any Time after be used or employed to or for any other Habitation, but only for Impotent and Poor of the same Parish, that shall be there placed from Time to Time by the Churchwardens and Overseers...
Pagina 10 - Vagabond above the age of fourteen years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the Gristle of the right Ear with a hot Iron of the Compass of an Inch, unless some credible Person will take him into Service for a Year.
Pagina 63 - ... it shall have absorbed the profits of the property on which the rate may have been assessed ; producing thereby the neglect and ruin of the land...
Pagina 106 - Be it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that the king our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed, the only supreme head in earth of the church of England, called Anglicana Ecclesia...