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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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A plain, humble, and earnest address to Parliament, in behalf of the poor and lower orders of British subjects; with a view to obtain an universal liberty of petition, a rational reform of Parliament, and a necessary division of farms, forests, and commons.
Bentley, Thomas, active 1775-1819.Date: 1793]
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An Act for making perpetual an Act made in the seventh year of the reign of the late King William, intituled, An Act to prevent false and double returns of Members to serve in Parliament.
Great Britain.Date: 1713]
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The laws concerning the poor. Wherein is treated of overseers, and their office. Of rates and contributions. Of settlements. Of families, vagrants, children, servants, &c. What shall make or amount to a Settlement by the former and latter Statutes. Stat. 14 Car. 2. c. 12. Explained. Of the 40 Days continuance; Of Notice by Statute 1 Jac. 2. and what shall amount to a Notice or not. Statute 3 & 4 W. & M. c. 11. Explained. What shall be said a Disturbance. Of Vagranes, Vagabonds; Stat. 39 El c. 4. 11 W. 3. c. 18. 1 Ann. c. 13. Explained. Of Workhouses, House of Correctio &c. and many other Matters relating to the Poor. All which lying in a confused Manner, are here setled under their proper Titles; And Illustrated with many late Resolutions of the Judges, as to Allowance or quashing several Orders of Sessions. To which are added several forms of orders of sessions, warrants, mittimus, &c.
Date: 1705
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Digest of the poor laws, in order to their being reduced into one act. With references to the statutes, and marginal observations.
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
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Observations on the scheme before Parliament for the maintenance of the poor, with occasional remarks on the present system, and a plan proposed upon different principles. In a letter to Thomas Gilbert, Esq. member for Litchfield.
Jones, Edward, of Wepre Hall.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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Defence of the statute passed in the forty-third year of Elizabeth, concerning the employment and relief of the poor: with proposals for enforcing it.
Ruggles, Thomas, 1737?-1813.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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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]
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A digest, or, an entire new and compleat body of the law concerning the poor, from the earliest period to the present time, Arranged Under Proper Heads; comprizing a great number of reported cases Not to be Found in Any One Work of this Kind, Together with Many Other Determined Cases Never Before Printed; taken from the notes of Henry Dealtry, Esq. Clerk of the Rules in the Court of King's Bench. By D. Prichard, Gent. To which will be added, a copious index, and a Table of the Cases.
Prichard, D.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
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A briefe declaration for what manner of speciall nusance concerning private dwelling houses, a man may have his remedy by assise, or other action as the case requires : Vnfolded in the arguments, and opinions of foure famous sages of the common law; together with the power, and extent of customes in cities, townes, and corporations, concerning the same: together with the determination of the law, concerning the commodity, and use of houses, and their appurtenances. Whereunto is added, the iustices of assise their opinion, concerning statute law for parishes, and the power of iustices of peace, churchwardens, and constables: and to know what they are to do concerning bastards borne in their parishes, reliefe of the poore, and providing for poore children, what remedy for the same.
Date: 1639
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A plea for the poor: in which I. Their inexpressible hardships and sufferings are verified from undeniable facts. II. Their Maintenance is evidently shewn to be an intolerable Burthen upon the Public. III. Methods are proposed for making Beggars, Vagrants, and Vagabonds useful to their Country, and providing for the Impotent and Disabled. IV. A summary is given of the several schemes of Judge Hale, Sir Josiah Child, Mr. Fielding, and others, for that Purpose. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of Parliament. By a merchant of the city of London.
Merchant of the City of London.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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A bill for the better relief, imployment, and settlement of the poor, as the same was reported from the committee to the Honourable House of Commons; in order that (by reason of the great importance and universal concern of the said bill) the same be farther consider'd against the next session of Parliament.
England and Wales. Parliament.Date: 1704
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A Proposal for erecting a charity, whereby poor children, and particularly orphans, shall be maintained, educated, and trained up to work and diligence.
Date: 1775?]
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A letter to Sir T.C. Bunbury, Bart. One of the members of Parliament for the County of Suffolk, on the poor rates, and the high price of provisions. With some proposals for reducing both. By a Suffolk Gentleman.
Suffolk Gentleman.Date: 1795
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An inquiry into the present condition of the lower classes, and the means of improving it, including some remarks on Mr. Pitt's bill For the better Support and Maintenance of the Poor. In the course of which the Policy of the Corn Laws is examined, and various other important branches of Political Economy are illustrated. By Robert Acklom Ingram, B. D. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.
Ingram, Robert Acklom, 1763-1809.Date: 1797
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A scheme for the better relief and employment of the poor; humbly submitted to the consideration of His Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament. By a Member of Parliament.
Member of Parliament.Date: Printed in the Year 1764