E. M. Leonard

The Early History of English Poor Relief

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Produktbeschreibung

This 1900 study of the early history of English poor relief sheds light on an important aspect of English social care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9781107632790
• ISBN-10: 110763279X
• Artikelnr.: 37803325

Inhaltsangabe

1. The beginnings of the secular control of poor relief; 2. The causes of
the reorganisation of poor relief; 3. 1514-69: poor relief in the towns; 4.
1514-69: the Privy Council and Parliament; 5. Review of the general
characteristics of public poor relief, 1514-69; 6. 1569-97: Parliament and
the Privy Council; 7. 1569-97: the measures of the towns and the events of
the years 1594-7; 8. 1597-1644: Parliament and the Privy Council; 9.
1597-1644: the local machinery for administration; 10. Methods of relief,
1597-1644; 11. Methods of relief, 1597-1644 (continued); 12. 1597-1644: the
administration of the poor law as a whole; 13. Poor relief in France,
Scotland, and England during the civil war and commonwealth; 14.
Conclusions; Appendix 1. Extracts from the Journals of the Common Council
of London; Appendix 2. Extract from the census of the poor taken at Norwich
recorded in the 'Maioris Bocke for the Pore'; Appendix 3. Extracts from the
'Orders for the poor' drawn up in Norwich, May 1571; Appendix 4. Report
concerning scarcity from Norfolk, 1586; Appendix 5. Part of a draft of
orders for remedying the scarcity of corn in 1596; Appendix 6. Accounts of
the churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Steplgrove, co. Somerset,
for the year 1599; Appendix 7. Orders made by the justices responsible for
Aylesham and Reipham, c. Norfolk, 23rd October 1622; Appendix 8. Report of
the justices from Lackford and the half hundred of Exning, February 7th
1622/3; Appendix 9. Extract from the Privy Council register. Copy of a
letter sent to the Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the counties of
Suffolk and Essex concerning the employment of the poor; Appendix 10.
Letter concerning the restoration of order and relief of the poor in
Rutland; Appendix 11. Letter from Sir Thomas Barrington concerning the
eight hundreds of Yorkshire; Appendix 12. Justices' reports on the
execution of the Book of Orders of January 1630/1; Appendix 13. The
division of monies collected for the poor January 1642/3 in Norwich;
Appendix 14. Report of the four royal hospitals, 1645; Appendix 15.
Ordinances of the Lords for putting in execution the laws for the relief of
the poor.