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A History of the County of Essex
… was first appointed in 1739, to deal with strangers, vagrants, and beggars. He soon became the messenger and …
Calendar, Committee for Compounding
… poor. On an Act for employment of poor, and punishment of vagrants, &c. 1,000 0 0 175 " 10 C.G.H. T.G.H. Edw. Walford, …
A History of the County of Essex
… there, unemployed, throughout the winter. Unlike English vagrants the Irish were not then normally subject to the …
Survey of London
… prison at its greatest extent, 1885 33. Treadwheel, Third Vagrants' Yard, c. 1862 34. Former prison gateway, c. 1900 In … for Coldbath Fields to accommodate women prisoners and vagrants, and the following year work began on a new boundary … perched on high arched foundations. 128 The proposed vagrants' annexe, designed by Sibley, was not erected until …
Old and New London
… are, for the most part, petty pilferers, misdemeanants, vagrants, and refractory apprentices, sentenced to solitary … prison.'" Latterly Bridewell was used as a receptacle for vagrants, and as a temporary lodging for paupers on their way …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 94 women and children travelling with passes. Gypsies and vagrants were causing trouble in 1820. In 1800 the overseers …