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... obtained without labour , often linger in spots most unfavour- able to the exercise of their industry . Poverty is thus not only collected , but created in the very neighbourhood whence the benevolent founders have manifestly expected ...
... obtained without labour , often linger in spots most unfavour- able to the exercise of their industry . Poverty is thus not only collected , but created in the very neighbourhood whence the benevolent founders have manifestly expected ...
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... obtaining yearly the means of sub- sistence , in part at least , from the poor - rate . The questions to be determined will be : 1. What number of persons are admitted yearly into workhouses and there relieved ? 2. What number of ...
... obtaining yearly the means of sub- sistence , in part at least , from the poor - rate . The questions to be determined will be : 1. What number of persons are admitted yearly into workhouses and there relieved ? 2. What number of ...
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... obtain the true number of poor persons relieved throughout England and Wales on the day in question . Adding , therefore , 146,867 to the 881,206 persons then relieved in unions , we obtain 1,028,073 as the number of paupers relieved on ...
... obtain the true number of poor persons relieved throughout England and Wales on the day in question . Adding , therefore , 146,867 to the 881,206 persons then relieved in unions , we obtain 1,028,073 as the number of paupers relieved on ...
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... obtain returns ; and such failures make me feel the more obliged to those clerks of boards of guardians whose kindness has furnished me with returns , which others would not take the trouble of making . The unions , respecting which I ...
... obtain returns ; and such failures make me feel the more obliged to those clerks of boards of guardians whose kindness has furnished me with returns , which others would not take the trouble of making . The unions , respecting which I ...
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... obtained , give the exact deduction to be made on account of the double entries in the lists of the second half - year . The clerks of unions , in their half - yearly return of the official " Statistical Statement " to the Poor Law ...
... obtained , give the exact deduction to be made on account of the double entries in the lists of the second half - year . The clerks of unions , in their half - yearly return of the official " Statistical Statement " to the Poor Law ...
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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