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Going on the parish : the parish pension and its meaning in the London suburbs, 1640-1724 / Jeremy Boulton.
Boulton, Jeremy.Date: 1997- Books
"Unlawfully begotten on her body" : illegitimacy and the parish poor in St Luke's Chelsea / Tim Hitchcock.
Hitchcock, Tim.Date: 1997- Books
Voices in the crowd : the Kirkby Lonsdale Township letters, 1809-36 / James Stephen Taylor.
Taylor, James StephenDate: 1997- Books
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The wonderful works of providence, Shown to the Widow and Fatherless; Being a true and well-attested Relation of one Mary Blake in Newport, the chief City of the Isle of Wight, who was left a Widow, with Four Children on the 7th of September 1743, and being reduced to great Poverty, applied to the Parish, the Church-Warden's Cruelty, his miserable End, and her unexpected Relief.
Date: 1744- Books
Attacking poverty.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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Two letters and several calculations on the sugar colonies and trade; addressed to two committees nominated by the West-India merchants, &c. With an appendix: Containing, 1. Four Letters concerning the flourishing Condition, large Extent, and prodigious Increase of the French Sugar Colonies; the Poverty, Weakness and Decay of the British Sugar Colonies; and their vast Importance to the Trade, Navigation, Wealth and Power of this Nation. 2. Some Proposals formerly presented to a Great Minister of State, for the Preservation and Advancement of the British Sugar Colonies, and Interests in the West-Indies: With an Addition of several Notes thereon. By Mr. Bennett, late Agent in the West-Indies, to the South-Sea and Royal Assiento Company of Great Britain; and to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Bennet, John, merchant.Date: 1738- Books
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The drunkard's legacy in four parts. First - Of a gentleman's having a wild son, and sore-seeing he would come to Poverty, had a Cottage built with one Door to it, always kept fast. His Father on his Dying-Bed, charged him not to open it 'till he was poor and slighted, which the Young Man promised he would perform. Secondly - Of the Young Man's pawning his Estate to a Vintner, who when poor, kicked him out of Doors. Thinking it Time to see his Legacy, he broke open the Door, where instead of Money, found a Gibbet and a Halter, which he put round his Neck, and jumping off the Stool, the Gibbet broke, and a Thousand Pounds came down upon his Head, which lay hid in the Ceiling. Thirdly-Of his redeeming the Estate; and fooling the Vintner out of Two Hundred Pounds, who for fear of being jeered by his Neighbours, cut his own Throat. And lastly, - Of the young man's reformation. Very proper to be read by all who are given to drunkenness.
Date: [1800?]- Books
Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / Jeremy Seabrook.
Seabrook, Jeremy, 1939-Date: 2013- Books
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The poor prisoner's comforter. In a collection of proper instructions and prayers, for Christians in prison. By the Use of which a Prisoner may find Comfort and Satisfaction in his Poverty and Confinement, and wisely improve them to his eternal Salvation. To which is added, instructions and devout exercises for a person laying under sentence of death. According to Mr. Gother, and other pious Authors.
Mackenzie, Alexander, 1730-1800.Date: 1764- Books
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The present state of Scotland consider'd: and its declining and sinking condition charged upon the conduct of the landed gentlemen, &c. Shewing That they have involved themselves, and their Country, in Poverty. That the only Mean of relieving their Estates, of suppressing destructive Trades, and saving Scotland from impending Ruin, is by their joining together to promote Home Manufacture, the landed Interest being chiefly concerned in this important Attempt.
Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]- Books
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The new art of thriving; or, the way to get and keep money. Being a Seasonable Caution against the Extravagancies of these Times. Containing Sixteen Excellent Rules and Observations for Promoting good Husbandry, and Banishing Idleness and Profuseness, the certain Parents of Poverty: With a table of expenses, principally intended for an Admonition to Youth, but most necessary to be Practised by All Persons in these Hard Times; And to be Set up in every Family.
Date: Anno Dom. 1706- Books
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The clergy-Man's advocate: or, an historical account of the ill treatment of the church and clergy, from the beginning of the reformation to this time. Shewing I. The Necessity of Abolishing the First Fruits and Tenths, and making better Provision for the Parochial Clergy. II. That the Poverty of the Clergy is the Occasion of their Contempt. III. That the Contempt of the Clergy is the Occasion of the Decay of Piety. IV. That the Decay of Piety is the Cause of our Parties and Factions, which has long Disturb'd our Happy Constitution. To which is annex'd Part of the Bishop of Lincoln's Charge to the Clergy of his Diocess in his Triennial Visitation, begun at Leicester, June the First, 1709. Written by a lay-hand, Humbly to Inform the Gentlemen of England of their Duty and Danger.
Lay-hand.Date: 1711- Books
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The key. As there are ten cards, and ten lines on every card, the following ten are the first lines on the black side of each of them, viz. Want prompts the wit, and first gave birth to - - - - A rts. Riches are a crime oftener than a - - - - D efence. Poverty is the fruit of - - - - - I dleness Wedding a woman for her beauty, is like eating a bird for its - - S inging The man who asks you many questions is a spy or a - - - C oxcomb. Good-will like a good name, is gained by many actions and lost by O ne. Good men hate to commit a fault out of the love they have to - V irtue. Ill-judg'd charity is the parent of idleness and - - - - E xcess. Lust is the unbridled horse of the soul, that has thrown its - - - R ider. The vices of age are as bad, or worse than those of - - - - Y outh.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.Date: [1780?]- Books
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An appeal to the common sense of Scotsmen, Especially those of the Landed Interest, And more especially freeholders, If their own Conduct be not the Source of their Misery? And, If their own vigorous Efforts be not the only Mean of their Relief? Together with A Proposal of the last Importance for saving the Country from Ruin, and preventing future Insurrections and other dismal Consequences of extreme Poverty and Want; In answer to The Groans of its wretched Inhabitants.
Date: [1747]- Books
UK@earth.people : poverty & the environment.
Date: 1990-1999- Books
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A sketch of the miseries of poverty.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: M.DCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
Eugenics and poverty / by Ruchard M. Titmuss and François Lafitte.
Titmuss, Richard Morris, 1907-1973.Date: 1942- Books
Aspects of poverty in early modern Europe / Thomas Riis, ed.
Date: 1981- Books
From pauperism to poverty / Karel Williams.
Williams, Karel.Date: 1981- Books
Mental health and poverty / Rob Poole, Robert Higgo, Catherine A. Robinson.
Poole, Rob, 1956-Date: 2014- Books
Global report for research on infectious diseases of poverty.
Date: [2012]- Books
Ill-health, poverty and the state / by John Hewetson.
Hewetson, John (John Christopher)Date: [1946]- Books
Urban poverty in Britain, 1830-1914 / James H. Treble.
Treble, James H.Date: 1979- Books
Problems of world poverty : a study outline / by J.C. Gray.
Gray, John Clement.Date: 1954- Books
Gender and poverty in nineteenth-century Europe / Rachel G. Fuchs.
Fuchs, Rachel G., 1939-2016.Date: 2005