CHAPTER XVI. PARISH AND POOR LAW. 1. Burn (R.) History of the Poor Laws. (3) + 295 pp. 8vo. 1764 2. Eden (Sir F. M.) State of the Poor; or an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the present period; with a chronological table of the prices of labour, provisions, etc. 3 vols. 4to. 1797 3. Foley (R.) Laws relating to the Poor, with cases adjudged in the King's Bench, [1556-1730]. (30) + 284 (20) pp., 8vo., 1739; (30) + 284 + (20) pp., 8vo., 1743; (24) + 328 + (24) pp., 8vo., 1751; (2) + 438 + (34) pp., 8vo. 1758 4. Foure Statutes... to be carefully put in execution [Orders for Health, Punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds, etc.]. 4to. R. Barker. 1609 5. Judges of assizes resolutions, 1633, concerning statute law for parishes, and the power of the justices of peace, churchwardens, and constables, and to know what they are to do concerning bastards born in their parishes, reliefe of the poor, and providing for poor children, what remedy for the same. 4to., 1639; 1641. Printed generally with the book, intitled, Declaration of a Nusance, &c. 4to. It appears by Dalton's Justice, ch. 73, that these resolutions were subscribed by Sir Rob. Heath when chief justice, the other judges not concurring therein; and that having been thus made public without proper authority, they were disallowed from the bench by Justice Twysden. 7. Nicholls (Sir G.) History of the English Poor Law in connexion with the Legislation and other circumstances affecting the condition of the people. 2 vols. xxix + 408, vi + 467 pp., 8vo., 1854; new edit., with supplementary volume by T. Mackay, 3 vols., 8vo. 1897-99; 3 vols., 8vo 1904 Orders and directions, together with a commission for the better administration of justice, and more perfect information of his majesty; how and by whom the laws and statutes tending to the relief of the poor, the well ordering and training up of youth in trades, and the reformation of disorders and disordered persons, are executed throughout the kingdom, which his royal majesty hath commanded to be published and inquired. of, by the body of his privy council, whom he hath made principal commissioners for that purpose. 2 pts. 4to. 1630 10. Ribton-Turner (C. J.) History of Vagrants and Vagrancy and Beggars and Begging. Illustrated. xxii + 720 pp. 8vo. 1887 Index of statutes (24 pages) includes all the statutes from the 7th century to the date of publication in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands. 11. Vinogradoff (Paul) Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History. Vol. 3. 188 pp. 8vo. 1912 Oxford. Part I. 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