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Workhouses - Great Britain
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A bill to amend and make more effectual the laws relating to rogues, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons, and to houses of correction.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1743]- Books
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An examination of the alterations in the poor's laws, proposed by Dr. Burn, and a refutation of his objections to workhouses, so far as they relate to hundred houses. Together with Observations upon the Bill lately offered to Parliament for ̀̀the better Relief and Employment of the Poor.'' and Some Objections to a Proposal founded upon That Bill, for an Application to Parliament ̀̀for the Relief and more comfortable Maintenance of the Poor in the County of Norfolk.'' The Whole Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Legislature.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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An account of the work-houses in Great Britain, in the year M,DCC,XXXII. Shewing their original, number, and the particular management of them at the above period. With many other curious and useful remarks upon the state of the poor.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Plan for the better relief and employment of the poor; for enforcing and amending the laws respecting houses of correction, and vagrants; and for improving the police of this country. Together with bills intended to be offered to Parliament for those purposes. By Thomas Gilbert, Esq.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Considerations on the bills for the better relief and employment of the poor, &c. &c. &c. Intended to be offered to Parliament this session. By Thomas Gilbert, Esq.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]