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A History of the County of York
… useful employment of the poor than with the suppression of vagrants, and there are comparatively few of those complaints … of 1631. burden of pauperism. Efforts were made to exclude vagrants by means of special watches which, however, became … at St. George's House where both the deserving poor and vagrants were set to work. 11 The Civil War no doubt stopped …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… town funds, and paid, for example, for the whipping of vagrants, for the purchase of fuel for the maisons dieu, for …
Old and New London
… the most abandoned characters used to lurk; outcasts and vagrants came there to sleep; and many a streetthief escaped …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… for his severity in executing the laws against vagrants and Catholics, the latter regarding him as 'one of …
A History of the County of Essex
… less welcome also found their way to Colchester. Many such vagrants had come from other towns, and a high proportion of … from Ireland. The dearth The whipping and expulsion of vagrants was only one part of an often punitive policy … weavers', a substantial number were Dutch, and a few were vagrants. The high proportion of children among them may be …
A History of the County of York
… the indigenous unemployed, 19 but the immigration of vagrants, attracted to York as to other large towns by the … 88 beggars in June 1569. 48 Despite all discouragements, vagrants continued to infiltrate. In April 1574 unemployed …
A History of the County of York
… estimates: visiting merchants, clergy, and tourists; vagrants, pensioners in almshouses, litigants in the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… banquet, and as the court is always followed by a swarm of vagrants, besides the kitchens in ordinary for his Majesty …