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Middlesex county records
… "Will you buy any glasses?" in order to colour his said vagrancy and escape punishment for the same. No clerical … "Will you buy any glasses?" in order to colour his said vagrancy, and escape punishment for the same vagrancy. On his arraignment John Webb confessed the …
Modern Britain and Ireland - awarded 1980-1989
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… Administrative history The public response to poverty, vagrancy and lunacy: a study of the Worcestershire …
Modern Britain and Ireland - awarded 2010-2014
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… State of Mendicity in the Metropolis (1815-16); Vagrants, Vagrancy; Poverty Categories: 18th-19th Century A model of … Idle, immoral and profligate lives: a comparative study of vagrancy in Huddersfield and Leeds, 1850-1910. Barrett, John … D. Chronological coverage: 18501910 Index terms: Vagrants, Vagrancy; Poverty; Huddersfield, Yorks.; Leeds, Yorks. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the city to provide a house of correction or a workhouse. Vagrancy was recognized as a problem by 1563, when the … 52 Then, as later, the city's special problem with vagrancy was probably connected less with cheap housing than … almsgiving, and its own constables to enforce the Vagrancy Acts. The society's office for the relief of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… body empowered to deal with the problem of poverty and vagrancy. 583 In the 18th century vestry meetings were held …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… (17591815), jail and marshalsea money receipts (17431765), vagrancy examinations and certificates, removal orders …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… them upon the measures to be taken for the suppression of Vagrancy. 30th November, 1594. II. 76. A Copy of the Orders for the suppression of Vagrancy within the City of London. II. 85. Causes of the …
Middlesex county records
… of "passing" vagrants was, of course, considerable. The vagrancy laws, which inflicted grievous whippings on the …
County of Middlesex. Calendar to the sessions records: new series
… scoulding troublesome nature" (p. 269). The laws regarding vagrancy were being constantly altered; a series of them had …
A History of the County of York
… 1865. 73 In 1848 committals were only for petty thefts and vagrancy, more serious offenders going to the castle. 74 This …