Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring Into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws, Volume 1 |
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able-bodied labourers according acres Actually relieved administration adopted agricultural allowance amount appears applied assistant overseer bastard burthen character child Cholesbury churchwardens consequence considered Cookham cottages diminished districts ditto earnings effect employ employers employment evidence evil expense farm farmers formerly frequently give given habits hiring idle impotent poor increase independent labourer industry instances Irish or Scotch justices justices of peace labour-rate labouring classes land Leckhampstead less Little Shelford magistrates marriages married master Meldreth ment mode neighbourhood neighbouring obtain occupiers out-door relief paid parish officers parish relief parishioners parochial paupers persons Poor Laws poor-rate population present principal proportion rate-payers receive relief refused rent Report respect riots says scale select vestry settlement Steeple Claydon surplus labourers Sussex Sutton Wick Swallowfield tion town wages week weekly whole wife workhouse workmen
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
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 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...
Page 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...