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Journal of the House of Lords
… Value of Two Thirds. Now we pay Two Eighteen-penny Rates, making Three Shillings in the Year. I apprehend, from the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… for the Labourer at a fair remunerating Price, but by making it the Interest of the Employer so to do, and which … the more effectually will the End be answered, of making every Class happy and contented, and the Nation at … of Labour. Do you not admit that the Practice of making up Wages out of the Poor's Rates arose before we …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Christenings from 1795 to the present Time, and I am making out an Account of the Christenings from a Period … in the habit of inquiring how much the Man earns, and then making the Order according to his Earnings, at so much a Head …
Journal of the House of Lords
… in it. What is the Practice in your Neighbourhood as to making a Mother pay for her Child? In making Orders of Affiliation we always put down the same Sum … do earn more, and particularly after Harvest, instead of making those Provisions which they used to do for Fuel and …
Journal of the House of Lords
… little of the Rate has gone towards the actual Labour of making the Roads. Can you state any Particulars as to the … that Parish for that Work? The married Men 8 s. per Week; making up their Families to the Amount I stated before. Have … employed, do get Meat. Are the Women employed in making Lace, or any Business they can carry on in their own …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Proposals, though I acknowledged their Liberality, but on making some Provision for the Poor; and the Provision, which … for the Rates, I paid the Rates, and made a small Advance, making it precisely the same as I received from the Farmer … for the Women and Children? We had, very recently, Lace-making for the Children, to a great Extent. Does that …
Journal of the House of Lords
… that if a Man proposes to dissolve the Society, his making that Motion excludes him from all future Benefit? Most … were very much depressed, and had pursued that System of making up Wages out of the Rates much more than they had ever … that Estate earn any Money by Work of their own? Yes; Lace-making was very common in that Country. Has it ceased? No, it …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Beginning of this Week that I could have an Opportunity of making the necessary Inquiries from the Parish Officer who …