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A History of the County of Essex
… have been sold and replaced by two cottages inhabited by paupers put there by the parish overseer. In 1862 the …
A History of the County of Essex
… only. In 1715 there was a payment of £3 for badges for paupers. There were similar payments for badges in 1729 and … nursing at home, and for rents. Occasionally, at least, paupers' children were bound out as apprentices. In June 1785 … a broken or fractured limb, and 2½ guineas for shaving the paupers once a week and for sweeping the chimneys. 35 In 1816 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish had a workhouse, in which there were usually three paupers in 1780; it stood at Fosbury and was probably closed …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1775-6 and was too small by 1818, when 7 Tottenham paupers had recently been kept in other parishes. A proposal …
A History of the County of Essex
… the total population than ten years earlier. The number of paupers varied widely from parish to parish. None was known … 1,161 2,209 52.6 * All those exempt in West Donyland were paupers, needing no exemption certificate, and hence not … added a figure, c. 10 per cent of the population, for the paupers who were omitted from the returns, making altogether …
A History of the County of York
… houses cannot have greatly increased the number of paupers in the city. The number of persons employed as … individuals. Nevertheless, there is no evidence of the 500 paupers allegedly removed from the hospitals and thrown … beggars, distributed sums agreed by the ward to recognized paupers. 37 Thus inaugurated long before the institution of a …