Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring Into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws |
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able-bodied labourers acres Actually relieved administration adopted agricultural labourers allowance amount appears applied arable land assistant overseer bastard burthen character child Cholesbury churchwardens consequence considered Cookham cottages district earnings effect employ employers employment evidence evil expense farm farmers frequently give given habits Henfield hiring idle impotent impotent poor increase independent labourers industry inquiry instances justice labour-rate labouring classes land less live magistrates Majendie marriages married master means ment mode neighbourhood neighbouring obtain occupiers out-door relief paid parish officers parishioners parochial paupers persons Poor Laws poor-rate population portion present Princes Risborough principal proportion Pulborough punishment racter rate-payers receive relief refused rent Report respect says scale select vestry settlement subsistence summons surplus labourers Sussex Swallowfield tion tithes town wages week weekly Whatfield whole wife woman workhouse
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Page 104 - ... competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 106 - 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...
Page 239 - And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page 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.
Page 109 - ... 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...
Page 299 - 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...
Page 114 - ... 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.
Page 104 - 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...
Page 104 - Overseers of the Poor of the same 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...
Page 106 - That it shall be lawful for the d«n apprentices, said churchwardens and overseers, or the greater part of them, by the assent of any two justices of the peace...