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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… on farms, but only 37 were employed regularly and recorded paupers had doubled to 16. 14 Only one recorded farm was …
Survey of London
… dispensaries, would have been eight storeys high, with the paupers occupying the five upper floors. This scheme was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… on poor-relief was augmented from the poor men's box, some paupers at least being farmed out to parishioners. 54 In the …
The Environs of London
… months, the tenant escapes that of being burdened by paupers. Twyford-house has at present ten inhabitants. Parish …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… acted as churchwarden and in 1795 avoided the burden of paupers by hiring servants for only 12 months at a time. 88 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… tenements for the use of the poor in 1675, 47 and in 1737 paupers were housed there and in several other houses … a Gloucester firm of pinmakers contracted to employ the paupers in the workhouse for 7 years. 50 In 1803 the … occupants, who earned £25 in that year, 51 and in 1815 39 paupers were housed there. 52 An assistant overseer was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of almost £33, though by 1813 there were only two parish paupers, paid £5 a year between them. 53 Although the cost of …