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Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… with the parish of Eastham and maintains its own poor. That the chapel within the said chapelry is an antient … mostly tenants at rack rents and greatly burthened with poor) without the assistance of his majesty's well disposed …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… an English and Grammar School there, for the benefit of poor children belonging to that town. The above John Wilde … him, nor have we heard that there ever was any. 9 By an Act of Parliament, passed thirty-first George III., 1791, … the relief and support of distressed widows and orphans of poor clergymen. He was thrice married; and succeeded to the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. The parish shared in Thomas Love's charity. 19 The … stock yielding £35 a year of which £10 was to provide the poor with coal at a reduced price, and £15 to buy blankets …
A History of the County of Essex
… c. 1825, consider- ing it 'inexpedient to overeducate the poor'. 93 Farm labourers joined the Tendring hundred trade …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1: copy in E.R.O. Digest Returns Sel. Cttee. Educ. Poor, H.C. 224, p. 277 (1819), ix (1). Nat. Soc. file. Ibid.; …
A History of the County of Essex
… the later 18th century regular cash doles were paid to the poor, besides extraordinary payments for clothing, fuel, … Some children were boarded out. Cloth was given to the poor, for example, in a half year in 1768 nine persons … apparently early 19th century. Annual expenditure on poor relief fell from £154 in 1776, equivalent to 8 s. 8 d. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with inland navigation. In the 10th of George II., an act was obtained for making the Worsley brook navigable, but … (in 1721) and others, are distributed among the poor in bread and money. Worsthorn WORSTHORN, a township, in the parochial chapelry and poor-law union of Burnley, parish of Whalley, Higherdivision …
A History of the County of York
… Thursday he gave the dole and washed the feet of the poor. 11 There was also a sub-dean, who in order of … to the minster and there sang the psalter through as an act of remembrance, besides saying his funeral service the … however, continued into the 18th century. Rich and poor still used the minster during their leisure time in …