 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812 - 494 pages
...government. In the year 1698, Fletcher of Saltoun declared as follows : " There are at this day in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door....formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 648 pages
...advantageous, but a " verv great burtlien to so poor a country. " And though the number of them be per" haps double to what it was formerly, by " reason of this...great distress, yet in all times there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...various diseases,) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And, though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason...times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have' lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...various diseases,) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason...times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection cither to the laws of the land, or... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pages
...various diseases), two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason...times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or... | |
 | 1813 - 566 pages
...various diseases,) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason...this present great distress, yet in all times there hare been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815 - 416 pages
...door to door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to...times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or... | |
 | Walter Scott - Astrologers - 1815 - 356 pages
...door tp door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, jet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
 | John Shute Duncan - Charities - 1815 - 242 pages
...year 1698, Fletcher of Saltoun .declared as follows : " There are at this day in Scot" land 200,000 people begging from door to door. " And though the...be, perhaps, " double to what it was formerly, by reafon of this ** prefent great diftrefs, (a famine then prevailed,) " yet in all times there have... | |
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... two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great... 
