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A History of the County of Chester
… v (2), Lists of Mayors and Sheriffs. Cattle Distemper, Vagrancy, Marshalsea Prison, etc. Act, 26 Geo. III, c. 34, s. …
A History of the County of Chester
… during further epidemics in 1631 and 1636. 2 Poverty and vagrancy were intractable problems throughout the period. … Johnson, 'Aspects', 216. A. L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in Eng. 1560-1640, 36-7, 39, 72. C.C.A.L.S., …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… prevention to regulating apprentices and suppressing vagrancy. There was an inevitable need for a standing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the city's rapid growth; although there was much talk of vagrancy and poor-relief, neither seems to have been an … of efforts to control plague, measures against vagrancy, and the provision of a bridewell. The council also …
Middlesex county records
… labour, in order to escape punishment for their pernicious vagrancy. If a poor man essayed to earn his living by hawking … against as a vagabond, who was colouring his habitual vagrancy by forestalling the markets. When a woman went forth … to roam about, and by his particular way of colouring his vagrancy encroached on the privileges of the drapers, and put …
Middlesex county records
… sometimes dealt with charges of petty larceny, common vagrancy, and trivial misdemeanours, the majority of the true … and women, no less than boys and men, were treated for vagrancy with the whip, the branding-iron and the rope. This … pp. 101, 2) were on 6 February, 18 Eliz., convicted of vagrancy and sentenced to be whipt and burnt with a hot iron …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… teach more poor children a trade and so reduce begging and vagrancy. 16 At first, because of weekly out-relief, the new …
Chelsea Settlement and Bastardy Examinations, 1733-1766
… children wandering and begging and committing the act of vagrancy in the said parish of Chelsea. James Townsend, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and measures offences, pleas of debt, nuisances, and even vagrancy; it issued bylaws, in 1454 forbidding innkeepers to …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… 259. The ordinances are of the usual kind, viz., against vagrancy by night, against keeping open taverns after curfew, …