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- E-books
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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- E-books
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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- E-books
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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- Books
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Londons charitie, stilling the poore orphans cry : Providing places and provision, by the care and indeavour of the corpoation appointed by the Parliament. To cloathe the naked, feed the hungry, instruct the ignorant, imploy the idle. Which pious and excellent designe, is encouraged by the Christian care, liberality, and appointment of the Honourable House of Parliament, and Councell of State. In giving two houses, and assigning a stock towards the promotion of the work. / By S:H: a well-wisher to the poores comfort, and the nations prosperity. Septemb. 3. 1649. Imprimatur, John Downame.
Samuel HartlibDate: 1649