Almshouses - England - London - Early works to 1800

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A short account of the work-house belonging to the President and Governours for the Poor in Bishopsgate-street, London
Governors for the Poor (London, England)Date: [1702?]
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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 true account of the burning of the city of London , and by wohm [sic]. Extracted from the Gazette of April the 26. to 30. 1666. Mentioned in the Rehearsal of the Observator of Saturday last.
Date: 1704
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The case of the parish of St. Giles's in the Fields as to their poor and a work-house designed to be built for employing them
St Giles in the Fields, HolbornDate: [1722?]
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An account of the Corporation for the Poor of London : shewing the nature, usefulness, and management of the work-house in Bishopsgate-Street : and that the relieving, educating, and setting poor children to work therein, is one principal design of its institution ...
Governors for the Poor (London, England)Date: 1713