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Page 4
... greatly exceed that sum . It appears , therefore , that , beyond the whole amount of what is given by individual Christian charity , the sum of money expended on the indigent poor of England , by what may be termed the organisation of ...
... greatly exceed that sum . It appears , therefore , that , beyond the whole amount of what is given by individual Christian charity , the sum of money expended on the indigent poor of England , by what may be termed the organisation of ...
Page 7
... greatly to be regretted that these important questions do not admit of any direct answer , by a mere reference to the voluminous Blue Books , folio and octavo , published at the instance of the Poor Law Commissioners , or the Poor Law ...
... greatly to be regretted that these important questions do not admit of any direct answer , by a mere reference to the voluminous Blue Books , folio and octavo , published at the instance of the Poor Law Commissioners , or the Poor Law ...
Page 9
... greatly reduced , the number of such paupers in work- houses , during each week of the year , was larger than in each corresponding week of the year 1849 . The very obvious explanation , given by the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland ...
... greatly reduced , the number of such paupers in work- houses , during each week of the year , was larger than in each corresponding week of the year 1849 . The very obvious explanation , given by the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland ...
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... greatly , not only in different years , but in different parts of the same year . Able - bodied adults are the class of paupers who have given rise to the worst , if not to the greater part , of our past pauper legislation , and the ...
... greatly , not only in different years , but in different parts of the same year . Able - bodied adults are the class of paupers who have given rise to the worst , if not to the greater part , of our past pauper legislation , and the ...
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... greatly exceeded the number actually in receipt of relief . In like manner the number of vagrants relieved was made to appear much greater than it really was , as every individual of that class was returned by each of the several unions ...
... greatly exceeded the number actually in receipt of relief . In like manner the number of vagrants relieved was made to appear much greater than it really was , as every individual of that class was returned by each of the several unions ...
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25th March administration agricultural counties agricultural labourer alms amount Annual appears average number bishop century chargeable charity Charles II Church classes clergy cloth condition cottages destitution Dorset Edition England and Wales Engravings evils existing expended half-year Henry VIII History houses impotent poor In-door increase inhabitants JANE MARCET justices justices of peace labour Lady-day land landowners law of settlement legislation London Lord lunatic ment metropolis morocco nearly number of paupers number of persons order of removal out-door relief overseers parish parliament parochial paupers relieved persons relieved Poor Law Board Poor Law Commissioners poor persons poor-rate population Post 8vo present proportion provision quarter ratepayers receiving relief reign rental repeal Report residence respect serf settlement and removal Stafford West statute of Charles statute of Elizabeth THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY towns union vagrant villein whole number Woodcuts workhouses Worksop