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The miseries of the poor are a national sin, shame, and charge: but by making them happy, we shall remove that guilt, raise the glory, and double the wealth and strength of Great Britain ; and pay old debts without new taxes. By the Judicious Employment of the Poor (under One New General Law) and Present Taxes (without any Land-Tax) we may Justly and Gradually Discharge (within Twenty Years) All our National Debts: And whilst those Debts and Taxes are thus reducing, we shall farther receive (from the Regular Management of the Poor) much greater Benefits than the Payment of those Fifty Millions. A Due Care of the Poor is an Act of Great Piety towards Almighty God, an Act of the Greatest Humanity among Men, and of great Civil Prudence and Political Wisdom in relation to the State. - As things now are, our Populousness (which might be made the Greatest Blessing a Kingdom can have) becomes a Burden to the Nation; by breeding up whole Races, families, and Generations, in a mere Trade of Idleness, Thieving, and Beggin, and a barbarous kind of Life: which must in time prodigiously increase, and over-run the whole Face of the Kingdom, and Eat Out the very Heart thereof. Lord Chief Justice Hale, in ... upon employing the Poor.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.Date: M.DCC.XVII. [1717]- Books
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Extracts from the information received by His Majesty's Commissioners, as to the administration and operation of the Poor-Laws. : Published by authority / [By C.J. London [and six others]].
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1833- Books
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Separate report by the Rev. Prebendary H. Russell Wakefield, Mr. Francis Chandler, Mr. George Lansbury, and Mrs. Beatrice Webb [of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Vol. III., Being the minority report].
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Index to minutes of evidence [to the Sixth-Seventh-Eighth-Nineth-Tenth volumes].
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Index to minutes of evidence [to the First-Second-Third-Fourth-Fifth volumes].
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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[Statutes : Sanitary laws & Quarantine Act, 1825].
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: [1825-1868-1871]- Books
The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.
Breverton, Terry, 1946-Date: [2015]- Books
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The statutes and by-laws of the corporation of the governor and directors of the hospitals for poor French protestants, and their descendants, residing in Great-Britain.
Hospital for Poor French Protestants.Date: Printed in the year MDXXXLI. [1561]- Books
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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes. Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of Unemployed Poor, and of Thieves and Prostitutes, are shewn to be immediately owing to the Severity, as well as the Defects of our Poor's - Laws; and to be primarily caused by the Monopolizing of Farms, and the Indosure of Common Lands; which have likewise decreased the Number of People, and brought our Woollen Manufacturies into a precarious State, as is made appear by Extracts from several Laws and other Authorities. Also, a New System of Policy, Most humbly proposed, for Relieving, Employing, and Ordering the Poor of England; Whereby a great Saving may be made in the Charge of Maintaining Them; the Poor's - Rates be kept nearly Equal in all Parishes, as in Equity they ought to be; and every Pretence for wandering about Begging, be taken away. To which are annexed, Forms of the principal Accounts necessary to be kept for those Purposes, whereby such Persons as are not conversant in Accounting will easily be able to comprehend all that is here proposed on that Head. By J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), -1784.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
Pauperland : poverty and the poor in Britain / Jeremy Seabrook.
Seabrook, Jeremy, 1939-Date: 2013- Books
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The charter and by-laws of the hospital of the corporation of the governor and directors of the hospital for poor French protestants and their descendants residing in Great Britain.
Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and Their Descendants Residing in Great Britain.Date: 1892- Books
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An abstract of the draught of a bill for relieving, reforming, and employing the poor. The united Wisdom of our Noble and Honourable Senators, may frame such a Bill (of which this Abstract is but an Imperfect Essay) as will probably answer All the Good Intentions of Thirty Statutes (now in force) relating to the Premisses: And the Principal Intents and Purposes of those numerous Laws, concerning the Poor, are Four, viz. First, Comfortably to maintain all those, whose Infancy, Age, or Infirmities, render them incapable of Labour; so that no Poor Briton, may be then obliged or permitted to beg. Secondly, To reform the Profligate Poor. Thirdly, In the most beneficial Manner (for Great Britain's Common Good) to Employ all the capable Poor; so that Th'industrious may never want Work; and the Lazr Poor be Compelled to Labour. And, Lastly, To reduce our Payments to the Poor, which are now supposed to be Twelve Hundred Thousand Pounds per annum Charge to Great Britain -- But this Great Burden this Scheme proposeth Totally to discharge in Thirty Years. Hereunto is prefix'd, A Brief Account of what was done by both Lords and Commons in 1704, for reducing all Laws, relating to the Poor, into One General Bill -- And also herein is set forth, the principal Considerations, upon which this Scheme is grounded, and the Publick Benefits from thence proceeding.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.Date: [1717?]- Books
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A list, or short account, of various charitable institutions in Great-Britain, for the benefit of the poor and infirm, &c. : recommended to all benevolent persons.
Grimstone, Henry.Date: 1794- Journals
Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1835-1847- Books
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Report of the Metropolitan Poor Law Inspectors' Advisory Committee on the Homeless Poor, to the Right Hon. Herbert Samuel ... president of the Local Government Board, 1914.
Great Britain. Metropolitan Poor Law Inspector's Advisory Committee.Date: 1915- Archives and manuscripts
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FPA Fact Sheets
Date: 1989 - 1990Reference: SA/FPA/C/G/3/16Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
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The Law relating to the Poor Law medical service and vaccination / [Major Greenwood].
Greenwood, Major, 1854-1917.Date: 1901- Books
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Report from His Majesty's commissioners for inquiring into the administration and practical operation of the Poor Laws. Published by authority.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1834- Books
The Poor Law report of 1834 / edited with an introduction by S.G. and E.O.A. Checkland.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1974- Books
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Report of the Poor law commissioners to the most noble the Marquis of Normanby, Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home department, on the continuance of the Poor law commission, and on some further amendments of the laws relating to the relief of the poor. With appendices.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1840- Books
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"Break up the Poor Law and abolish the workhouse" : being part 1. of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission / [edited by Sidney and Beatrice Webb].
Date: 1909- Books
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Reports on the sanitary state of the labouring classes : as affected chiefly by the situation and construction of their dwellings, in and about the metropolis ; extracted from the fourth and fifth annual reports of the Poor Law Commissioners.
Date: 1840- Books
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Abstract of the returns made by the overseers of the poor, in pursuance of an act, passed in the twenty-sixth year of His Present Majesty's reign, intituled, "An act for obliging overseers of the poor to make returns upon oath, to certain questions "Specified therein, relative to the state of the poor."
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
The Minority report of the Poor law commission.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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The Minority report of the Poor law commission.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909