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A dissertation on the poor laws . By a well-wisher to mankind.
Townsend, Joseph, 1739-1816.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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An act to impower John Wall the grandfather , and Mary Wall, the Guardian, of Anna Maria Wall, an Infant, to execute, Articles, Leases, or Grants, for giving Liberty to drive a Sough through an Estate called Cowley Estate, in the Parishes of Darley and Youlgreave, in the County of Derby, descended to, and now vested in, the said Anna Maria Wall.
Parliament of the United KingdomDate: 1760]
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Heads of a bill for the better relief and employment of the poor , and for the improvement of the police of this country. Submitted to the consideration of the members of both Houses of Parliament. By T. Gilbert.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 20-1798.Date: M,DCC,IXXXVI. [1786]
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A dissertation on the poor laws. By Joseph Townsend, M.A. rector of Pewsey, Wilts
Joseph TownsendDate: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]
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A discourse of the poor Shewing the Pernicious Tendency Of the laws now in Force For their Maintenance and Settlement: Containing likewise, Some Considerations Relating to national improvement in general. By the late Hon. Roger North, Esq;.
North, Roger, 1653-1734.Date: 1753
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Plan for the better relief and employment of the poor for enforcing and amending the laws respecting houses of correction, and vagrants; and for improving the police of this country. Together with bills intended to be offered to Parliament for those purposes. By Thomas Gilbert, Esq.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 20-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]
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Remarks on the laws relating to the poor with proposals for their better relief and employment. By a Member of Parliament. First published in 1735; and now again submitted to consideration. With an appendix, containing the Resolutions of the House of Commons, on the same Subject, in 1735; and the Substance of two Bills since brought into Parliament. To which is prefixed, a preface, on the present Publication.
Hay, William, 1695-1755.Date: 1751
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Some observations on the laws relating to the poor
Date: 1760?]
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An examination of the alterations in the poor's laws, proposed by Dr. Burn, and a refutation of his objections to workhouses, so far as they relate to hundred houses. Together with Observations upon the Bill lately offered to Parliament for "the better Relief and Employment of the Poor." and Some Objections to a Proposal founded upon That Bill, for an Application to Parliament "for the Relief and more comfortable Maintenance of the Poor in the County of Norfolk." The Whole Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Legislature
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]
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The statutes at large concerning the provision for the poor : being a collection of all the Acts of Parliament relating thereto, now in force : to which is added, a table of all the said Acts, digested into alphabetical order.
Great BritainDate: 1755 :
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Observations on the present state and influence of the poor laws founded on experience; and a plan, proposed for the consideration of Parliament: by which the affairs of the poor may in future be better regulated; Their Morals, and Habits of Industry, Greatly Improved; And A Considerable Reduction in the Poors Rates Effected. By Robert Saunders, Esq.
Saunders, RobertDate: 1799
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Considerations on several proposals, lately made, for the better maintenance of the poor : with an appendix, containing heads of two bills for the better government, maintenance, and employment of the poor, within the city and liberty of Westminster, and in the several counties of England.
Gray, Charles, approximately 1695-1782.Date: 1752
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Observations on the bill intended to be offered to Parliament for the better relief and employment of the poor In a letter to a member of Parliament. By Richard Burn, LL.D.
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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Observations upon the orders and resolutions of the House of Commons , With respect to the Poor, Vagrants, and Houses of Correction. By Thomas Gilbert, Esq;.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 20-1798.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry . Its establishment, regulations, and bye-laws: with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view. Fifth edition. To which is now added, a large introduction, Containing General Observations On the present State of the Poor, And The Defective System Of The Poor's Laws. By I. Wood.
Wood, IsaacDate: [1800]
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The laws respecting parish matters . Containing the several offices and duties of churchwardens, overseers of the poor, constables, watchmen, and Other Parish Officers. The Laws Concerning Rates and Assessments, Settlements and Removals of the Poor, and of the Poor in General. The Laws relating to Repairs of Highways, Weights and Measures, &c. The whole laid down in a plain and easy Manner: in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. As collected and digested from the several reports, and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Also an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of all such Instruments as most frequently occur in the Management of Parish Affairs. The second edition, improved and much enlarged. By the author of The laws of landlord and tenant, Law of Wills, Laws of Masters and Servants, &c.
Bird, James BarryDate: [1799]
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Letters to the guardians of the infant poor to be appointed by the act of last session of Parliament : also to the governors and overseers of the parish poor : recommending concord, frugality, cleanliness, and industry, with such a pious, humane, resolute, and judicious conduct in the execution of their office, as may effectually answer the good purposes for which they are chosen, and more particularly in the preservation of infants / by Jonas Hanway.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1767
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Argument in the case of the poor's rate charged on the colleges of Christ and Emmanuel, in the University of Cambridge, 1768
Marriott, James, Sir, 1730?-1803.Date: [1768]
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Abstract of the returns made by the overseers of the poor : in pursuance of an act, passed in the twenty-sixth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for Obliging Overseers of the Poor to Make Returns upon Oath, to Certain Questions "Specified Therein, relative to the State of the Poor.".
Great Britain. Overseers of the Poor.Date: 1787
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A new scheme for reducing the laws relating to the poor into one act of Parliament : and for the better providing the impotent poor with necessaries, the industrious with work, and for the correction of idle poor.
Date: 1736
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Remarks on the laws relating to the poor . With proposals for their better relief and employment. By a Member of Parliament.
Hay, William, 1695-1755.Date: [1735]
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An Historical treatise on the laws for the relief and management of the poor : containing an abstract of the statute 22d George III, with illustrations, calculated to shew the expediency of establishing houses of industry.
Date: 1791
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Remarks upon the late resolutions of the House of Commons , respecting the Proposed Change of the poor laws. To which are subjoined, Some General Observations upon the printed bill. By Henry Zouch, Clerk, a Justice of the Peace.
Zouch, Henry, 1725?-1795.Date: [1776]
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Examination of Mr. Pitt's speech , in the House of Commons, on Friday, February 12, 1796, relative to the condition of the poor. By the Rev. J. Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex.
Howlett, John, 1731-1804.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]
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A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws , down to the present time. In which are contained many Cases never before published; extracted from the Notes of a very Eminent Barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular Order. By Edmund Bott, Esq. Barrister at Law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the poor.
Great Britain. Court of King's BenchDate: 1773

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A dissertation on the poor laws . By a well-wisher to mankind.

Heads of a bill for the better relief and employment of the poor , and for the improvement of the police of this country. Submitted to the consideration of the members of both Houses of Parliament. By T. Gilbert.

A dissertation on the poor laws. By Joseph Townsend, M.A. rector of Pewsey, Wilts

A discourse of the poor Shewing the Pernicious Tendency Of the laws now in Force For their Maintenance and Settlement: Containing likewise, Some Considerations Relating to national improvement in general. By the late Hon. Roger North, Esq;.

Plan for the better relief and employment of the poor for enforcing and amending the laws respecting houses of correction, and vagrants; and for improving the police of this country. Together with bills intended to be offered to Parliament for those purposes. By Thomas Gilbert, Esq.

Some observations on the laws relating to the poor

The statutes at large concerning the provision for the poor : being a collection of all the Acts of Parliament relating thereto, now in force : to which is added, a table of all the said Acts, digested into alphabetical order.

Considerations on several proposals, lately made, for the better maintenance of the poor : with an appendix, containing heads of two bills for the better government, maintenance, and employment of the poor, within the city and liberty of Westminster, and in the several counties of England.

Observations on the bill intended to be offered to Parliament for the better relief and employment of the poor In a letter to a member of Parliament. By Richard Burn, LL.D.

Observations upon the orders and resolutions of the House of Commons , With respect to the Poor, Vagrants, and Houses of Correction. By Thomas Gilbert, Esq;.

Argument in the case of the poor's rate charged on the colleges of Christ and Emmanuel, in the University of Cambridge, 1768

A new scheme for reducing the laws relating to the poor into one act of Parliament : and for the better providing the impotent poor with necessaries, the industrious with work, and for the correction of idle poor.

Remarks on the laws relating to the poor . With proposals for their better relief and employment. By a Member of Parliament.

An Historical treatise on the laws for the relief and management of the poor : containing an abstract of the statute 22d George III, with illustrations, calculated to shew the expediency of establishing houses of industry.

Remarks upon the late resolutions of the House of Commons , respecting the Proposed Change of the poor laws. To which are subjoined, Some General Observations upon the printed bill. By Henry Zouch, Clerk, a Justice of the Peace.

Examination of Mr. Pitt's speech , in the House of Commons, on Friday, February 12, 1796, relative to the condition of the poor. By the Rev. J. Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex.