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Plan pour assister, corriger, & emploier tous les pauvres de la Grande Bretagne; Par le moien d'une loi générale que l'on propose de subsistuer à trente autres qui sont actuellemont en force. Par Ce nouvel arrangement on pourvoit à l'entretien de rous les pauvres qui sont hors d'état de travailler; on fournit de l'Ouvrage à tous ceux qui peuvent le faire; on emploie ces derniers aux choses où ils sont les plus propres; on fait concourir au bien public de l'etat le bien particulier qu'on leur fair en les occupant; Et enfin on met tous les pauvres, de quelque ordre qu'ils soient, dans une situation où il ne leur sera, ni necessaire, ni permis demainder. On répond en passant, aux objections les plus considerables que l'on peut faire contre ce projet, en attendant que dans un ouvrage à part, qui paroîtra bien-tôt, on y donne un réponse plus érendue.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.
Date
1721
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Legal provisions for the poor: or, a treatise of the common and statute laws concerning the poor, either as to relief, settlement, or punishment. Being a methodical guide for justices of peace, church-wardens, and overseers. Wherein are explain'd, All the Statutes relating to that Subject; with the Ancient and Modern Law-Cases and Resolutions of the Judges: And also many Precedents proper for such a Treatise. By S. C. of the Inner-Temple, Esq;
S. C. (Samuel Carter), of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.
Date
1710
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Inferior politics: or, considerations on the wretchedness and profligacy of the poor, especially in London and its vicinity: -On the Defects in the present System of Parochial and Penal Laws:-On the consequent Increase of Robbery and other Crimes:-And on the Means of Redressing these public Grievances. With an appendix, containing a plan for the reduction of the national debt. The second edition. To which is added, a comparative view of Mr. Gilbert's Bill and the plans proposed in this work: Shewing the exact Resemblance between them, as far as the Bill extends, and pointing out farther Regulations necessary to be adopted. By Hewling Luson, of the Navy-Office.
Luson, Hewling.
Date
M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]
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Observations on various plans offered to the public, for the relief of the poor. By the Rev. Joseph Townsend, Rector of Pewsey, in Wiltshire, and late of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Townsend, Joseph, 1739-1816.
Date
M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
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A proposal for relieving, reforming and employing all the poor of Great Britain, by vertue of one desired general law, relating to the poor, instead of thirty statutes, now in force, concerning the premises. And Hereby All these Poor, who thro' Infancy, Age, or Infirmities, are Incapable of Labour, will be comfortably Maintain'd, and none then Obliged, or Permitted to beg: And all our Capable Poor, will be Profitably Employ'd, for the Common Good of both King and Kingdom. And the most material Objections rais'd, against this Proposal. And a full Answer, to all those Objections, will be shortly publish'd.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.
Date
Printed in the Year. 1721
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The laws concerning the poor: or, a compleat treatise of the common and statute law, relating to the relief, settlement, punishment, &c. of the poor. ...
Date
1718
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A dialogue, in two conversations, between a Gentleman, a Pauper, and his Friend, intended as An answer to a pamphlet, Published by the Rev. Mr. Potter, intitled Observations on the poor laws, on the Present State of the Poor, and on Houses of Industry. By Thomas Mendham, Of Briston, in Norfolk.
Mendham, Thomas.
Date
1775
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Definitions and axioms relative to charity, charitable institutions, and the Poor's Laws. In a series of letters to William Fellowes, Esq. Occasioned by a pamphlet entitled, "considerations on the fatal effects of the present excess of public charity to a trading nation." By Samuel Cooper, M. A. Late Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge.
Cooper, Samuel, 1739 or 1740-1800.
Date
1764
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Rules, Orders, and Regulations, for the Better Disposition of such Monies. As shall be raised and received for the relief of the poor Of the Parish of St. George, Han'square, And for the better Maintaining, Governing, Employing and Regulating The poor of the said Parish Made and agreed upon pursuant to the Directions of an Act of Parliament of the 26th Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second. Approved of and confirmed by Vestry of the said Parish duly assembled.
Saint George (Hanover Square, Westminster, London, England : Parish)
Date
1789?]
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Rules, orders, and regulations, for the better government of the poor, in the house of industry for the hundreds of Colneis and Carlford in Suffolk.
Colneis and Carlsford (Suffolk, England : Hundreds)
Date
in the Year 1759
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