A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People, Volum 2P.S. King & son, 1898 |
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Pàgina 26
... whilst 1740. at Michaelmas , 1738 , it had only been 20s . 2d . The corn . Ex- scarcity was deemed sufficient to call for legislative prohibited . interference , and 14 George II . cap . 3 , was passed , Prices of portation 1740 . 13 ...
... whilst 1740. at Michaelmas , 1738 , it had only been 20s . 2d . The corn . Ex- scarcity was deemed sufficient to call for legislative prohibited . interference , and 14 George II . cap . 3 , was passed , Prices of portation 1740 . 13 ...
Pàgina 28
... whilst it Pretender . greatly encouraged his adherents , excited alarm and support the cause of the 1 A graphic account of the consequences resulting from such establish- ments is given in the Quarterly Review ( No. CVII . ) for April ...
... whilst it Pretender . greatly encouraged his adherents , excited alarm and support the cause of the 1 A graphic account of the consequences resulting from such establish- ments is given in the Quarterly Review ( No. CVII . ) for April ...
Pàgina 46
... whilst wages have at least doubled since then , and the price of clothing has fallen more than one - half . There can therefore be no doubt that a far greater portion of the comforts and conveniences of life are now attainable by the ...
... whilst wages have at least doubled since then , and the price of clothing has fallen more than one - half . There can therefore be no doubt that a far greater portion of the comforts and conveniences of life are now attainable by the ...
Pàgina 50
... whilst , with respect to the working classes , the recital of the Act furnishes a conclusive argument against settlement as affecting them , by declaring that many of them , when removed back to the place of their legal settlement , had ...
... whilst , with respect to the working classes , the recital of the Act furnishes a conclusive argument against settlement as affecting them , by declaring that many of them , when removed back to the place of their legal settlement , had ...
Pàgina 51
... whilst , according to the same authority , the wages of agricultural labourers , which on the average of the seventeenth century had been 101d . a day , were for the following sixty - six years a shilling , being a rise of 16 per cent ...
... whilst , according to the same authority , the wages of agricultural labourers , which on the average of the seventeenth century had been 101d . a day , were for the following sixty - six years a shilling , being a rise of 16 per cent ...
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A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of ..., Volum 2 Sir George Nicholls Visualització completa - 1898 |
A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of ..., Volum 2 Sir George Nicholls Visualització completa - 1898 |
A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of ..., Volum 2 Sir George Nicholls Visualització completa - 1898 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 195 - ... every person running away and leaving his wife, or his or her child or children, chargeable, or whereby she or they or any of them shall become chargeable to any parish, township or place...
Pàgina 304 - no rate for the relief of the poor Assess-'* in England and Wales shall be allowed by any justices, or be of any force, which shall not be made upon an estimate of the net annual value of the several hereditaments rated thereunto — that is to say, of the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants...
Pàgina 30 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Pàgina 308 - Peace as is aforesaid, for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them, be thought able to keep and maintain their Children; and also for setting to work all such Persons, married or unmarried, having no Means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily Trade of Life to get their Living by...
Pàgina 186 - ... such house or building shall be held, and such land occupied, and the rent for the same actually paid, for the term of one whole year at the least...
Pàgina 269 - Regulations, or any of them: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as enabling the said Commissioners or any of them to interfere in any individual Case for the Purpose of ordering Relief.
Pàgina 305 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Pàgina 244 - ... 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 poor are often immured.
Pàgina 36 - ... in the streets, highways, passages, or other public places, to beg or receive alms ; 6.
Pàgina 273 - Provided always, that no Person shall be eligible to hold any Parish Office, or have the Management of the Poor in any way whatever, who shall have been convicted of Felony, Fraud, or Perjury.