The History of the Poor Laws: With Observations

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H. Woodfall and W. Strahan, 1764 - 295 páginas
 

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Página 16 - ... due execution : and as the said several acts and statutes were at the time of the making of them, thought to be very good and beneficial for the...
Página 83 - ... such persons married or unmarried as having no means to maintain them use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by; and also to raise weekly or otherwise (by taxation of every inhabitant and every occupier of lands in the said parish in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit...
Página 16 - ... limited and rated in many of the said statutes are in divers places too small and not answerable to this time, respecting the advancement of prices of all things belonging to the said servants and labourers, the said laws cannot conveniently without the great grief and burden of the poor labourer and hired man be put in good and due execution...
Página 90 - Easter, under the hand and seal of two or more justices of the peace in the same county, whereof one to be of the quorum, dwelling in or near the same parish or division where the same parish doth lie, shall be called overseers of the poor of the same parish...
Página 209 - ... or if they do hire them for a year, then to endeavour to pick a quarrel with them before the year's end, and so to get rid of them...
Página 143 - there are rates made for the relief of the impotent poor ; and, it may be, the same relief is also given in a narrow measure unto some others that have great families, and upon this they live miserably and at best from hand to mouth ; and if they cannot get work to make out their livelihood, they and their children set up a trade of begging at best...
Página 210 - To bind out poor children apprentices, no matter to whom, or to what trade, but to take especial care that the master live in another parish...
Página 195 - ... fince the plunder of the one ferves fo little to the real advantage of the other : for while a million yearly is raifed among the rich, many of the poor are ftarved; many more...
Página 83 - ... 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...
Página 7 - That every man and woman of our realm of England, of what condition he be, free or bond, able in body, and within the age of threescore years, not living in merchandize...

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