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A short vindication of the proceedings of the Governors of the General Hospital at Bath, in relation to Mr. Archibald Cleland, Late Surgeon to the said Hospital; wherein The several Facts misrepresented in a Pamphlet, call'd, An Appeal to the Publick, by Mr. Cleland, Are Fairly Stated. To which is prefix'd, A short narrative of the proceedings. By the Governors of the Hospital, who voted for Mr. Cleland's dismission
Date: 1744- Books
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Further considerations on the laws relating to the poor. By the author of Considerations on several proposals for the better maintenance of the poor.
Gray, Charles, approximately 1695-1782.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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A view of real grievances, with remedies proposed for redressing them; humbly submitted to the consideration of the legislature.
Powell.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Remarks on the laws relating to the poor; with proposals for their better relief and employment. By a Member of Parliament. First published in 1735; and now again submitted to consideration. With an appendix, containing the Resolutions of the House of Commons, on the same Subject, in 1735; and the Substance of two Bills since brought into Parliament. To which is prefix'd, a preface, on the present Publication.
Hay, William, 1695-1755.Date: 1751- Books
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Considerations on the poor laws, on the Present State of the Poor, and on Houses of Industry. With some occasional remarks on a pamphlet lately published on these subjects, by the Reverend R. Potter. Occasioned by a bill now depending in Parliament for establishing an house of industry, for the hundreds of Mitford and Launditch, in the County of Norfolk.
Date: 1775- Books
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A dissertation on the poor laws. By Joseph Townsend, M.A. rector of Pewsey, Wilts.
Townsend, Joseph, 1739-1816.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The history of the poor laws: with observations. By Richard Burn, LL. D. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Westmorland.
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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Observations preliminary to a proposed amendment of the poor laws. Addressed to the members of the two Houses of Parliament. By William Young, Esq. F.R.S. & M.P.
Young, William, Sir, 1749-1815.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- 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
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A new scheme for reducing the laws relating to the poor into one act of Parliament, and for thebBetterpProviding theiImpotent poor with necessaries, the industrious with work, and for the correction of idle poor. The second edition. To which are added reasons for making no other alterations in the poor-law, than what appear absolutely necessary.
Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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The history of the poor; their rights, duties, and the laws respecting them. In a series of letters. By Tho. Ruggles, Esq. F. A. S. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Essex and Suffolk. In two volumes. ...
Ruggles, Thomas, 1737?-1813.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]-94- Books
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An act to impower John Jones, Esquire, and Margaretta Maria his wife, ... to make leases ...
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1766]- Books
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A letter to Thomas Gilbert, Esq; on his intended reform of the poor laws. By a country gentleman.
Country gentleman.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Remarks on two bills for the better maintenance of the poor, &c. In a letter to --, Member of Parliament. By Thomas Alcock, M. A. Late of Brase-Nose College, Oxford.
Alcock, Thomas, 1709-1798.Date: 1753- 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: with a supplement. Submitted to the Consideration of the members of both houses of Parliament. By T. Gilbert, Esq
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The duties of overseers of the poor, and the sufficiency of the present system of poor laws considered, in a charge delivered to the grand jury, At The General Quarter Sessions Of The Peace For the Jsle of Ely, Holden on 2 April, 1799, by James Nasmith, D. D. Chairman. Published at the Request of the Magistrates. To which are annexed, remarks on a late publication, entitled, "observations on th present state and influence of the poor laws, founded on Experience, by Robert Saunders, Esq."
Nasmith, James, 1740-1808.Date: [1799]- Books
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Some observations on the laws relating to the poor.
Date: 1760?]- 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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Remarks on the laws relating to the poor; with proposals for their better relief and employment. By a Member of Parliament. First published in 1735; and now again submitted to consideration. With an appendix, containing the Resolutions of the House of Commons, on the same Subject, in 1735; and the Substance of two Bills since brought into Parliament. To which is prefixed, a preface, on the present Publication.
Hay, William, 1695-1755.Date: 1751- Books
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A plan of police: exhibiting the causes of the present increase of the poor, and proposing a mode for their future more effectual relief and support.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 1720-1798.Date: 1781?]- Books
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The heads of a plan for the raising the money for maintaining paupers by a new method. In which the deficiencies of the old system are pointed out, and the author hopes made good.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Remarks upon the present state of the poor. By the Rev. J. G. Sherer, A. B. Curate of Droxford, Hants.
Sherer, Joseph Godfrey.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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Remarks on the laws relating to the poor. With proposals for their better relief and employment. By a Member of Parliament.
Hay, William, 1695-1755.Date: [1735]- Books
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A short view of the frauds, abuses, and impositions of parish officers, with some considerations on the laws relating to the poor; shewing how the deficiencies therein might be remedied, by fixing a qualification for the choice of church-wardens and overseers, by limitin the sums to be raised by their rates, and by bringing them to account properly for the monies that come into their hands.
Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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Original precedents of settlements, drawn by the most distinguished conveyancers of the present day, and now first published under the direction and inspection of James Barry Bird, Esq. Author of the Conveyancer's Assistant, &c.
Bird, James Barry.Date: 1800