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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to accumulate for distribution in seasons of special distress. 17 Hews's charity became one of the Wilton …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the same.' For this purpose they might compel by distress or otherwise all persons who had lands, tenements, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… cannot get his due for his tenement and can find no other distress, by award of the court and the view of the alderman … War. At its close, however, there was much poverty and distress in the suburb and consequent difficulty in getting …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… John Rouse, one of the serjeants-at-mace, was to take distress of those who refused to pay the scavenger his … In 1581 the penalty was 2 s., to be levied if necessary by distress. 208 An ordinance of 1519 settled that any …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… who had fallen from good circumstances into unforeseen distress. There were eight recipients in 1837. Loake's …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Colvile's subsequent bankruptcy caused considerable distress, and a resolution of 21 October 1778 asserts 'that …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at first with suspicion or hostility and caused widespread distress among rural spinners, while many weavers in the …
The Environs of London
… domestic servants, to the number of 40, being in present distress, by reason that their sole dependence was upon the …