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Poor children - 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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    A letter to every housekeeper in London, on behalf of Parochial Industry Schools, for every child who has no other opportunity of receiving any instruction in the several duties of life. From a citizen of the world

    Citizen of the world | Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
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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

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