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Survey of London
… of St. James as a parish infirmary for sick and impotent paupers. It remained open until 1748 (see page 210). Husband …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… in 1781 it entered an agreement for placing the parish's paupers for a year in the Dymock workhouse. In 1784, during …
The Environs of London
… let formerly at 40s. per ann. but now inhabited by paupers, rentfree. Bishop Warner, anno 1666, gave the …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… since Thomas (d. 1791) and Mary Lock (d. 1793) were both paupers. 8 Poverty, disease, and misfortune affected many …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1327. 57 In 1660 the hamlet contained a large number of paupers, 58 but by 1689 apparently only four tenements. 59 … The sum of 2 guineas was used for distributions to 100 paupers in 1774 and in thirteen other years including 1806. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Durley's land or the forest's, 27 and the parish, to which paupers born in the forest were returned, attempted to bring … house in 1761, and from c. 1774 a workhouse in which paupers were employed in spinning and laundering. Most poor … outdoor, and in 1794 the parish bought 74 wheels for paupers to use in their own homes to spin hemp. In 1802-3, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Canes, presumably in return for being allowed to send paupers there. 344 Under the Burntwood inclosure award of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to spend money on out-door relief rather than send paupers to the workhouse and that illegitimate children were … employers in the town, 5 and from 1832 all able-bodied paupers had to present themselves daily at the workhouse. 6 Some paupers were probably set to work in 20 a. of garden land …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… officers. 13 In 1736 it fitted up a town house where paupers might spin. By 1776 that house held 20 inmates. 14 … the Church Lands trustees as a 'workhouse' to accommodate paupers, including lunatics, not necessarily actually working … 21 About 1835 the 15 males, out of 49 permanent paupers, half over sixty, of whom few were in the workhouse, …