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A History of the County of Sussex
… all able-bodied labourers received an allowance or regular relief during part of the year and many the whole year. 34 … was said to be attended by two well-to-do families, a few poor parishioners, and a fair number of outsiders. The … buried in Islington (Mdx.), devised £20 for teaching poor boys and girls. 58 By 1833, when his school had become a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… century yellow metal BUTTONs were popular with the poor, judging by the descriptions of runaway apprentices and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… E. wall, (2) tapering slab with defaced head in high relief at top, 13th-century; near S. porch, (3) to James …
A History of the County of Somerset
… cleared but standard trees remained and grazing was thus poor. Labour services, valued at 51 s., comprised 140 owed … In 1647 it was said that the parish could not support its poor without assistance. 43 In the 18th century most relief was in the form of regular cash payments but by 1790 a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. Thomas's day. Usually the whole amount was given to the poor, and from c. 1815 it was used to support the school and … was created to promote the welfare of the aged and the relief of poverty in the parish of Yarnton. The income was c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 20th century, was sold in 1987. Although Yarnton was a poor living, several medieval vicars were long-serving, … Hall, who performed services regularly, attendances were poor; Gregory blamed his parishioners' 'thoughtlessness and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 39 were said by the vicar to be occupied by the 'labouring poor'. 79 From the late 19th century the major changes in the … there were usually c. 300 a. of arable in the parish. 98 Relief on rent was allowed to some tenants in the 1820s, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Spencer chapel or, if not needed there, for Yarnton's poor, 55 was usually spent on clothes for the schoolchildren. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was allegedly the consequence of building new cottages for poor families, who then 'over-filled the new cottages also'. … houses, 2 public houses, and 39 cottages of the 'labouring poor'. 7 Cottages were said in 1868 to be 'badly constructed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… anachronism that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so assessed. … attended by c. 6 parishioners. 23 Two overseers of the poor were chosen annually by rota from the parish's leading … as high as £3 10 s. 25 In 1776 Yarnton spent £32 on poor relief, rising to an average of £76 between 1783 and 1785. 26 …