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Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… friend in London to interfere in the business, and get the poor man out of the way, if possible." There are several …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… Concerne in Sussex, after raising 100 l. a year for four poor scholars, two at either university. (3.) Dame Jane Mico, … of Dartmouth. Acquainting him with the whole plan of the relief of the troops in the West Indies, as it is to be …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… be sole judge, whether the No. grant is good or not. The poor people are all alarmed at this, and positively say they …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… occasioned the hopes which the respite may have given the poor man.St. James's. 10 Sept. Dom. Geo. III., v. 14, No. 7. …
A Dictionary of London
… to the brotherhood of St. Giles, founded by Henry V. for relief of the poor (S. 303), the house being situated in Whitecross Street. …
A History of the County of Essex
… have been been passed to the mayor for distribution to the poor. Trade improved after 1720, when plague halted French … by 1824, when two men in St. Botolph's parish sought relief pending employment in the silk trade. In 1827 the … received nearly a third of the boys apprenticed under the poor law. 58 Local tanneries may have produced the dressed …
A History of the County of Essex
… and professional élites. A gulf remained between rich and poor: conflict surfaced in occasional disturbances, but law … years of high food prices and an increasing burden of poor relief. 19 The Colchester Loyal Volunteers were formed …
A History of the County of Essex
… on local affairs. Many of the Anglican parishes were poor livings with dilapidated church buildings, badly served … as a prevention rather than a cure of vice in the poor. 79 By 1833 many day-school places had been provided. 80 … Society for Essex and Herts. was founded in 1786 for the relief of distressed medical men, their widows and children, …
A History of the County of Essex
… 54 The reinstatement of the parochial system of poor relief after the failure of the workhouse corporation in the 1740s, however, restricted the movement of the poor between the town parishes, 55 and every parish contained …
A History of the County of Essex
… from each of the four wards, operated a unified system of poor relief with a borough workhouse. The corporation also seems … issued by twelve assistants who heard applications for poor relief every three weeks at the borough workhouse. In …