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Poor - Great Britain - Economic conditions

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    Useful suggestions favourable to the comfort of the labouring people, and of decent housekeepers : explaining how a small income may be made to go far in a family, so as to occasion a considerable saving in the article of bread : a circumstance of great importance to be known at the present juncture.

    Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820. | Date: 1795
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    The poor man's friend

    Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808. | Date: 1795
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    Outlines of an attempt to establish a plan for a just and regular equivalent for the labour and support of the poor : and to reconcile the weights of the kingdom to one standard, by connecting them with the copper coinage.

    | Date: [1797?]
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    Observations on the present state on the poor, and measures proposed for its improvement. By the Rev. Edward Wilson, Canon of Windsor, And One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace For the County of Berks

    Wilson, Edward, Canon of Windsor. | Date: October 30th, 1795
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    Thoughts on the most safe and effectual mode of relieving the poor, during the present scarcity

    | Date: 1795
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