Poor - Services for - England - Early works to 1800

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London work-house . A true report of the great number of poor, vagrant, and other children, as also of the other grown beggars, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons, educated, maintained, and imployed by the President and Governors, for the poor of the city of London, at the work-house in Bishops-Gate-Street, in the year past.
Governors for the Poor (London, England)Date: 1707
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A help for the poor who are visited with the plague: to be communicated to them by the rich, or, by any pious Christian, whose bowels of compassion are moved towards them, in the apprehension of their comfortless condition, and the great danger of their dying in their sins. Consisting of two parts. The first, shewing them their duty and concernment in this condition. The second, exhibiting certain forms of meditation, prayer and praise, suited to the beginning, continuance and issue of their visitation. Both composed out of compassion to the poor, who in this contagious sickness want the benefit of a spiritual physician (a wise and able minister to instruct them, and pray with them:) and designed to be a help and means to save their souls: ... By Thomas Willes, late minister of Shadwell.
Thomas WillisDate: 1666
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London work-house . A true report of the great number of poor, vagrant, and other children, as also of the other grown and able poor, beggars, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons, educated, maintained, and imployed by the President and Governors, for the Poor o f the City of London, at the Work-House in Bishops-Gate-Street, in the Year last past.
Governors for the Poor (London, England)Date: 1705
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A brief account of the dispensary, erected at the College of Physicians in Warwick-lane, London, for the relief of the sick poor.
Date: [1704?]
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The dispensaries, and dispensary physicians vindicated, &c.
Date: [1703?]