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A History of the County of Oxford
… play of his imminent arrest for debt, and John Tasker, 'poor and drunk'. 71 Costs grew with the size of the … paving the streets, 73 and in 1731 the duchess clothed 80 poor townspeople. 74 Despite all efforts the Marlborough …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ch. Mag. (1863), 329; above, Local Govt., Par. Govt. and Poor Relief; below, Educ. Oxf. Chron. 31 May 1851; 25 Apr., 8 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Charities CHARITIES. A distribution to the poor of corn from Woolaston Grange was said to have been made … c. 1818 and replaced by a range of five dwellings for five poor widows, 20 which became disused in the later 19th … 22 A sum of 4 d. was distributed for the relief of the poor c. 1547 from land left for obits. 23 Richard and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Clayton established a charity in 1616 for schooling four poor children of Woolaston, 98 and a master was paid out of … the vestry resolved to appoint a mistress to teach nine poor boys, 1 and the Clayton charity of 40 s. a year was paid … Char. 113. Church School Inquiry, 1846-7, 18-19. Educ. of Poor Digest, 317. G.D.R. vol. 383, no. cxxxvii. Educ. Enquiry …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… number doubled. 84 In the early 19th century the cost of poor-relief rose from £249 in 1803 85 to between £300 and … was built. 88 About 1836 Woolaston became part of Chepstow Poor Law Union, 89 but for other local government purposes it … MS. 2601/2. Glos. R.O., D 1430B/23. Overseers' acct. bk. Poor Law Abstract, 1804, 184-5. Poor Law Abstract, 1818, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… between 1838 and the 1930s; most conspicuous is the poor quality stone terrace north-west of the church, formerly … 31 There were two churchwardens and two overseers of the poor but no accounts survive earlier than the 19th century. … the dilapidated buildings as an almshouse for the aged poor. The house was to be maintained by a weekly charge of a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 133840, p. 177. The land was only worth 6 s. 8 d., being poor heathland: Cal. Inq. Misc. ii, 530. Curia Regis R. 176, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… "reading divine service, and teaching the children of the poor at Aston the principles of their faith:" this fund has …
The Environs of London
… market-house (where the cage now is) for the use of the poor 4. Manor. Manor of Woolwich, or Southall in Woolwich. … Martin Bowes founded an alms-house in Woolwich for five poor widows, and committed the care of it to the Goldsmiths' … present Value. Use. Sir Martin Bowes, 7s. 11d. per annum, Poor. 1621. Rev. Richard Sims, Four tenements, Poor. 1629. …