The Early History of English poor Relief

able-bodied able-bodied poor accordinge administration aldermen alehouses alms almshouses Appendix appointed apprentices April beggars Book of Orders Braughing Bridewell bushel charity Chas Christ's Hospital churchwardens City cloth clothiers compulsory concerning constables corn districts Eliz Elizabeth employed employment enforced England English execution funds given hath haue Hospitall hospitals House of Correction hundred impotent poor inhabitants Ipswich It(em John justices kind kirk sessions labour letter levied licensed London Lord markett matter Mayor measures ment municipal Norwich Odsey officers organisation Ouerseer overseers paid Papers parish Parliament peace persons places poor law poor relief poore children Privy Council Privy Council Register proclamation punished Quarter Sessions regulations reign reports rogues scarcity Scotland sent Sessions setting the poor seventeenth century shalbe sixteenth sold statute system of poor tion Towne stocke trade tyme unemployed vagabonds vagrants VIII wages warde wthin wyfe yeres