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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… If it be so I hope I shall have the liberty of the Test with other subjects, and then at my arrival I shall soon …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Quakers, and Unitarians, have places of worship. A workhouse was established about 1780 on Lindow common, and …
Survey of London
… business from c. 1880 to the 1920s, using a workhouse built in 1872 for a printer's joiner. 55 There was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… A temporary hospital was built on a site adjoining the workhouse garden, supported by a liberal subscription from … purchased a site outside the borough at the back of the workhouse garden. 24 There was no public lighting on the … overseers paid the corporation a rent of 6 a year for the workhouse, 34 but by 1832 the rent had risen to 18 13 s. 6 d. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the recipients would undoubtedly have had to go to the workhouse. Mease's gift also provided an annual payment of 6 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… remains at the W. end. c (42). Cottage, formerly a workhouse, and now three tenements, adjoins (41) on the E. d …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Wincanton mill, formerly a nonconformist chapel, for a workhouse. 63 Numbers at the workhouse were deliberately reduced soon after 1743 64 but in … following year. 65 In 1800 paupers were transferred from workhouse to poorhouse, where they had to provide for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and also for preparing girls for creditable service. The workhouse for the Windsor union is situated here; and in the …