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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… power to enlarge the buildings and increase the number of inmates, which now amounts to thirty; exclusively of whom, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… to have been rather a parapet for the protection of the inmates. The description ( C. and W. Trans., N.S. XXIII, p. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 3 children. 77 In the 1740s there were about a dozen inmates and in 1769 c. 21; 78 in 1763 a man and his family … workhouse on Rosemary Lane to house and employ 60 or more inmates, the cost to be met from the poor rate, subscription, … his obligations, 86 and in 1796 there were only c. 10-14 inmates, though 45, including children, were mentioned in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was again being used as a place of detention. 103 The inmates, as in other castles at the time, 104 were recusants, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on weekly pay; by 1803 94 adults, 185 children, and 50 inmates of the workhouse were in receipt of regular relief, … payment, in 1756 a weekly payment plus the profit of the inmates' labour, and in 1780 simply a salary of 25 a year and … as no one wanted to be governor. 131 In 1795 the inmates were getting meat six days a week, probably a better …
A History of the County of Oxford
… principle which made for ease of supervision of the inmates and for clarity of 'classification' of the different …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 4 miles (N. N. W.) from Ipswich; containing, with the inmates of the union workhouse, 576 inhabitants. The parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… an estate now producing about 500 per annum: the number of inmates has been increased to eleven aged men and a nurse, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of which part was invested in the Navy 5 per cents. The inmates have each separate apartments, and the buildings …
A Dictionary of London
… Perhaps originally a "beades" house, or almshouse, the inmates of which were to offer prayers for the soul of the …