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The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… An Act for the continuance of the Laws for Punishment of Vagrants, and for making such Laws more effectual. An Act for …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and proper provision of poor relief. 19 Its use to control vagrants is seen in 1600 when the two high constables …
Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney
… in the foot way leading from London to Hackney. Adjudged Vagrants & Committed to the house of Correction till …
Survey of London
… dwell in that dreary desolation, with the wind howling and vagrants prowling in the speculative warnings around them.' …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… oaths' at Littleport; singly or in pairs they examined vagrants and issued passes for them to go even so far as … to their attention, but also in confirming or quashing vagrants' passes issued by local justices and otherwise … an Ely man who refused to lend his cart for removing' vagrants, and three Downham men who refused to pay their …
A History of the County of York
… juries. It punished crime; it ordered the chastisement of vagrants and the execution of the poor law; it considered …