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Proposals for a regulation, or an entire suppression, of pawn-brokers . With a detection of their fraudulent practices, and a Recommendation of the Methods used by the States of Holland, for the Relief of the Necessitous, by lending on Pledges. To which are added, some considerations on the present calamities of the sufferers by the Charitable Corporation. Submitted to the Parliament of Great-Britain, and Addressed to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Ephemera
Barnardo's Christmas box : Please hang your gift on the tree! We have 8250 boys & girls to provide for! / Dr. Barnardo's Homes, 18-26 Stepney Causeway, E.1.
Dr Barnardo's (Organization)Date: [1934?]- E-books
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Considerations on the fatal effects to a trading nation of the present excess of public charities . In which the Magdalene, Asylum, Foundling, Hospitals for Sick and Lame, ... are particularly considered. And a plan for a new system of Poors [sic] Laws proposed.
Date: 1763- E-books
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The nature, design, rules and regulations of a charitable institution termed the Stranger's friend : begun in Dublin, in 1791, and afterwards established in Manchester, Liverpool, and other places, humbly recommended to the consideration of all those who earnestly wish to ameliorate the condition of the poor.
Clarke, Adam, approximately 1762-1832.Date: [1798]- Books
The prevention and relief of distress : a handbook of information respecting the statutory and voluntary means available for the relief of distress and the improvement of social conditions : being Sir Charles Loch's 'How to help cases of distress' / revised, re-arranged, and brought up to date for the Charity Organisation Society.
Charity Organisation Society (London, England)Date: 1924- E-books
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The reports of the Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor . Vol. I.
Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poorDate: 1798- E-books
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Plain reasons for a general reform of our charities in a letter to Sir John Sinclair, ... President of the Agriculture Society; occasioned by the circulation of their late Queries in favour of the distressed poor, with an appendix, relative to a particular benefaction of the first consequence.
Massey, William, 1773 or 4-1838.Date: 1796-98- E-books
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A letter to the author of Considerations on several proposals for the better maintenance of the poor
Date: 1752- E-books
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Observations on the causes of the dissoluteness which reigns among the lower classes of the people the propensity of some to petty larceny: and the danger of gaming, concubinage, and an excessive fondness for amusement in high life, &c. Also an account of the humanity and policy of the Marine Society, now solliciting an Incorporation-The State of the London Workhouse, and the Usefulness and Piety of the Magdalen Hospital, &c. With a proposal for new regulating of Bridewell, in order to render it of important Service to the Police of London. Likewise a plan for preventing the extrordinary mortality of the children of the labouring Poor in London and Westminster. In three letters to a governor of Bridewell, Bethlem, Christ-Church, &c. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation : jubilee celebration 1960-2010 : an historical review / Simon Perry.
Perry, SimonDate: [2010]- E-books
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The open heart and purse or, British Liberality Display'd; being memoirs of the illustrious bounties, collections, donations, and charitable contributions, in Great Britain, and Ireland, for the relief of indigent housekeepers, families, and others, distressed by the severity of the frost, which commenc'd about London, in the night of December 25, 1739; and began to abate on February 15, 1739/40. Collected From the most Authentic Papers, Journals, &c. published in London and the Country; as well as from private Intelligences. With an alphabetical list of the known benefactors.
Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]