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Journal of the House of Lords
… About Forty. How many receive Relief on account of old Age or Sickness? About Twenty. What is the Rate of Wages …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Do they generally make any great Savings against old Age? [175] No, I am not aware that they do; but they … as the Family live together, have some Provision in their old Age; and the Parents are very often assisted and … whose Case I have just mentioned, is now getting to be an old Woman, but of course they do not think of applying to the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… In the Case of their being built on Waste Lands, and the old Cottages taken down, that must be done at the Expence of … and towards the necessary Relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and others being poor and not able to work: And … afford Parochial Relief or Allowance to those who through old Age or any Infirmity are unable by their Labour wholly to …
Journal of the House of Lords
… 0 To 24th June 0 7 0 To 29th September Nil. Maintenance of old and infirm Parishioners Children, including Bastards 107 … 26 14 6 Surgeon 20 4 7 Overseer Nil. Maintenance of old and infirm Persons 266 2 0 Do. of Bastards 15 12 0 Do. of … 30 15 6 Surgeon 111 6 8 Overseer 44 0 0 Maintenance of old and infirm Persons 984 1 1 Do. of Bastards 165 8 9 Do. of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… used only to sawing; they could not dig well: one was an old Pensioner, a Soldier; and another a good Labourer. The … not accustomed to digging, produced 1 s. 5½ d. a Day; the old Pensioner got 1 s. 5½ d. a Day; and a young Man, … s. d. Butler Labourer 60 6¾ 2½ 1 4¾ 5 33 6 10½ Kent An old Pensioner - 7 2½ 1 5½ 4¾ 33 6 10½ Old Stanbrook and a …
Journal of the House of Lords
… a History of each Family in the Parish, from Six Weeks old to the oldest Person in it ( producing it). The Town of … No. 8. Ten Shillings per Week, Winter Wages; 70 Years old. No. 9. Thirteen Shillings per Week; Shepherd; Two Sheep … the Paupers in the Workhouse into Two Classes: the old, infirm and impotent form the first; the idle, …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of the Poor Laws, namely, to provide for those who from old Age, Sickness and Infirmity are unable to provide for … 9 s. No. No. No. No. No. 40 s. to 3£. Yes. No. 5£. to 5 old Widows, and 3 Roods, and a small Almshouse. Yes; Coals. … of Trustees Yes; Fuel and Clothing to Widows and old Men. Turf 7 s. per Thousand. 6 s. 6 d. in the Pound. Do. …
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… it would be much better to take the middle-aged and old Men, and let the Boys be distributed among the Farmers, … in their own Parishes, which are thus deprived of the old Channels by which their increased Population, from Time … they received; and that can be proved by many Witnesses as old as myself, and by reference to the Poor Rates at that …
Journal of the House of Lords
… was kind enough to let me have Six, the rest was an old worn-out Gravel Pit. Persons said, "You may have …
Journal of the House of Lords
… a Friendly Society, that they may put by something towards old Age. I should presume that a Labouring Man having Half an … such Land, to lay by a Proportion of their Profits towards old Age; or it might be taken of him in the Shape of Rent, … so; and by increasing their Comforts now, when they become old and not able to cultivate the Land perhaps so …