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To the Right Honourable, the Lords in the High Court of Parliament assembled. : The humble petition of the cause of the poore alms-men of East-ham now depending before your Lordships, together with a letter to the Right Honorable the Lo: Grey of the chaire from the honorable standing committee of Chelmsford in the county of Essex. Sheweth the difficulty and great charge the poor are and have been at to get their pensions paid them, and also how uncertainly it is to be paid hereafter.
Year: 1644 Publisher: [London : s.n.,

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The bill (with the amendments) for remedying some defects in the act made in the forty-third year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for the Relief of the Poor
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Year: 1744 Publisher: [England? s.n.

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The publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society.
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ISBN: 180010703X Year: 2023 Publisher: [Woodbridge] : Boydell & Brewer,

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Contains 'The Relief of the Poor at Eaton Socon, 1706-1834', by F. G. Emmison. 'Tithe at Pavenham, 1759/60', contributed by C.D. Linnell.


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The poor in England 1700-1850 : an economy of makeshifts
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Year: 2003 Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. Incomes or benefits derived from such strategies allegedly ranged from wages supported by under-employment via petty crime through to charity, but allusions to this array of makeshifts usually fall short of answering vital questions about how and when the poor secured access to them. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition. Individual chapters written by some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. They suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. A comprehensive introduction summarises the state of research on English poverty, and a thought-provoking conclusion makes valuable suggestions for the direction of future research. This book will be crucial for historians of social life and welfare, of interest to researchers working on eighteenth- /nineteenth- century England and will be useful to undergraduates seeking guidance on the historiography of poverty.

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Poor --- Charity --- Income --- Public welfare --- Social networks --- history --- poor --- poverty --- england --- Kinship --- Lancashire --- London --- Pawnbroker --- Poor relief --- Vestry --- History --- History.


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The poor in England 1700-1850 : an economy of makeshifts
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Year: 2003 Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor for material survival. Incomes or benefits derived from such strategies allegedly ranged from wages supported by under-employment via petty crime through to charity, but allusions to this array of makeshifts usually fall short of answering vital questions about how and when the poor secured access to them. This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition. Individual chapters written by some of the leading, young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling households. They suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and geography. A comprehensive introduction summarises the state of research on English poverty, and a thought-provoking conclusion makes valuable suggestions for the direction of future research. This book will be crucial for historians of social life and welfare, of interest to researchers working on eighteenth- /nineteenth- century England and will be useful to undergraduates seeking guidance on the historiography of poverty.

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Poor --- Charity --- Income --- Public welfare --- Social networks --- History --- History. --- history --- poor --- poverty --- england --- Kinship --- Lancashire --- London --- Pawnbroker --- Poor relief --- Vestry


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The diary of Benjamin Rogers, Rector of Carlton, 1720-71
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ISBN: 9781800107182 Year: 2023 Publisher: [Woodbridge] : Boydell & Brewer,

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Benjamin Rogers was vicar of Stagsden from 1712 to 1720, when he was presented by Lord Trevor to the living of Carlton, where he remained until his death in 1771. His diary covers the years 1727 to 1752. In addition to clerical duties, he records his family, friends, farming, travels, the weather, prescriptions for a range of ailments and injuries, Bedford borough politics, local events and people. There are also notes of tithes for 1722; malt sold to his mother; a terrier of the glebe land in Carlton; notes on local people; a list of Rogers' glebe land and the 33 acres he rented; names of the certificates upon Chellington and Carlton files, presumably settlement certificates; the fruit trees planted around his house in 1729; recipients of money given for the poor of Chellington and Carlton in 1735 and 1737 and extracts about Stagsden, Carlton and Chellington from ecclesiatical records.


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Das Wiener Stadtzeichnerbuch 1678-1685 : ein Bettlerverzeichnis aus einer frühneuzeitlichen Stadt
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Böhlau

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Nicht nur in der Gegenwart, sondern auch in der Vergangenheit spielte das Thema BettlerInnen in Wien eine wichtige Rolle. Zwischen 1443 und 1693 wurde das Betteln in Wien mittels obrigkeitlicher Bettelzeichen („Stadtzeichen") beschränkt. Erhalten gebliebene Bettlerverzeichnisse aus dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert bieten Einblick in die Lebenswelten der „gekennzeichneten" Menschen.


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Cercle philanthropique: Les sans nom non sans coeur. Etabli à Gand ... : statistique, ou Aperçu général des secours octroyés depuis la fondation du Cercle.
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Year: 1888 Publisher: Gent : Van Doosselaere,


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Cercle philanthropique: Les sans nom non sans coeur. Etabli à Gand ... : statistique, ou Aperçu général des secours octroyés depuis la fondation du Cercle.
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Year: 1877 Publisher: Gent : Van Doosselaere,


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Cercle philanthropique: Les sans nom non sans coeur. Etabli à Gand ... Statistique, ou Aperçu général des secours octroyés depuis la fondation du Cercle. -.
Year: 1869 Publisher: Gent : Dullé-Plus,

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