72 results filtered with: Poor laws - Great Britain
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Thoughts on poverty and pauperism / by Henry Carre Tucker.
Date: 1871- Books
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Remarks upon an intended bill for the relief of the poor, now under consideration of Parliament. By a country magistrate.
Country Magistrate.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- 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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Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, its establishment and regulations; with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view. By I. Wood. The fourth edition, with some enlargements. To which are added a correspondence on the subject with the Rev. J. Howlett, &c. and the bye-laws, rules and ordinances of the said house.
Wood, Isaac.Date: 1795- Books
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Abstract of the bill for the encouragement of seamen, to enter voluntarily into His Majesty's service.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1728]- Books
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The laws respecting parish matters. Containing the several offices and duties of churchwardens, overseers of the poor, constables, watchmen, and Other Parish Officers. The Laws Concerning Rates and Assessments, Settlements and Removals of the Poor, and of the Poor in General. The Laws relating to Repairs of Highways, Weights and Measures, &c. The whole laid down in a plain and easy Manner: in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. As collected and digested from the several reports, and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Also an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of all such Instruments as most frequently occur in the Management of Parish Affairs. The second edition, improved and much enlarged. By the author of The laws of landlord and tenant, Law of Wills, Laws of Masters and Servants, &c.
Bird, James Barry.Date: [1799]- Books
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A summary view of the objects and beneficial provisions in Mr. Gilbert's new bill, now before the House of Commons; intended to recommend it to public notice and encouragement.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Examination of Mr. Pitt's speech, in the House of Commons, on Friday, February 12, 1796, relative to the condition of the poor. By the Rev. J. Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex.
Howlett, John, 1731-1804.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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Remarks on the poor laws, and the maintenance of the poor. By William Bleamire, Esq. Barrister at Law, and One of the Police Magistrates.
Bleamire, William.Date: 1800- Books
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Considerations on the subject of poor-houses and work-houses, their pernicious tendency, And their Obstruction to the the proposed plan for amendment of the poor laws; in a letter to the Rt. Hon. W. Pitt, from Sir William Young, Bart. F. R. S.
Young, William, Sir, 1749-1815.Date: 1796- Books
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A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws, down to the present time. In which are contained many Cases never before published; extracted from the Notes of a very Eminent Barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular Order. By Edmund Bott, Esq. Barrister at Law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the poor.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.Date: 1773- Books
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Abstracts of the returns made by the overseers of the poor, in pursuance of an act passed in the sixteenth year of His Present Majesty's reign, Intituled, "An act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions specified in the act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorize and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the Parliaments."
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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An act to impower John Wall the grandfather, and Mary Wall the guardian, of Anna Maria Wall, an infant, to execute articles, leases, or grants, for giving liberty to drive a sough through an estate called Cowley Estate, in the parishes of Darley and Youlgreave, in the county of Derby, descended to, and now vested in, the said Anna Maria Wall.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1760]- Books
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An authentic copy of the bill for the better support and maintenance of the poor, presented to the House of Commons by the Right Honourable William Pitt, with the amendments made in the Committee. Ordered to be printed Dec. 31, 1796.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1797- Books
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Laws relating to the poor, from the forty-third of Queen Elizabeth to the third of King George II. With cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, upon the several clauses of them. In a method entirely new. The second edition corrected. By Robert Foley Esq; Barrister at Law.
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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An earnest appeal for mercy to the children of the poor, particularly those belonging to the parishes within the bills of mortality, appointed by an Act of Parliament to be registered. being a general reference to the deserving conduct of some parish officers, and the pernicious effects of the ignorance and ill judged parsimony of others. With some comparative views of those parishes and the Foundling Hospital; And Reasons for the necessity of such an hospital in these cities, to be maintained for certain purposes only, and under certain restrictions. Also a proposal for the more effectual preserving the parish children here, and in other great cities and manufacturing towns, and rendering the children of the poor in general pious, useful, and good subjects. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Cursory remarks on Mr. Gilbert's last bill, for the better relief, and employment of the poor, &c. and his considerations thereon: in a letter to that gentleman. By H. Bate Dudley, Clerk, one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the county of essex.
Dudley, H. Bate, Sir (Henry Bate), 1745-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A discourse of the poor. Shewing the Pernicious Tendency Of the laws now in Force For their Maintenance and Settlement: Containing likewise, Some Considerations Relating to national improvement in general. By the late Hon. Roger North, Esq;
North, Roger, 1653-1734.Date: 1753- Books
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A New scheme for reducing the laws relating to the poor into one act of Parliament, and for the better providing the impotent poor with necessaries, the industrious with work, and for the correction of idle poor.
Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Heads of a bill for the better relief and employment of the poor, and for the improvement of the police of this country. Submitted to the consideration of the members of both Houses of Parliament. By T. Gilbert.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: M,DCC,IXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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An authentic copy of the bill for the better support and maintenance of the poor, presented to the House of Commons by the Right Honourable William Pitt, with the amendments made in the Committee. Ordered to be printed Dec. 31, 1796.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1797- Books
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Observations on the bill intended to be offered to Parliament for the better relief and employment of the poor: In a letter to a member of Parliament. By Richard Burn, LL.D.
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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An authentic copy of the bill for the better support and maintenance of the poor, presented to the House of Commons by the Right Honourable William Pitt, with the amendments made in the Committee. Ordered to be printed Dec. 31, 1796.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1797- Books
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Observations on the bills for amending and rendering more effectual the laws relative to houses of correction: For the better Relief and Employment of the Poor: And For amending and rendering more effectual the Laws relative to Rogues, Vagabonds, Beggars, and other Idle and Disorderly Persons. With a table annexed, for the Direction of the several Officers and Persons to adjust and pass their Accounts, under the Direction of the Act, in the easiest and most concise Manner.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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An impartial examination of a pamphlet, intitled, Considerations on several Proposals lately made for the better Maintenance of the Poor: with some serious and occasional animadversions on this important subject. To which are annexed, copies of the Considerations; and of another Pamphlet, intitled, Remarks on the laws relating to the poor.
Creed, James, Sir.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLII. [1752]