The history of the poor; their rights, duties, and the laws respecting them, Volume 11793 |
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Page 282 - VI. c. 2, the collectors of the poor on a certain Sunday in every year, immediately after divine service, were to take down in writing what every person was...
Page 288 - To keep an extraordinary look-out to prevent persons coming to inhabit without certificates, and to fly to the justices to remove them ; and if a man brings a certificate, then to caution all the inhabitants not to let him a farm of £10 a year, and to take care to keep him out of all parish offices...
Page 29 - At the first establishment of parochial clergy, the tithes of of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division ; one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Page 289 - To bargain with some sturdy person to take them by the lump, who yet is not intended to take them, but to hang over them in terrorem, if they shall complain to the justices for want of maintenance.
Page 288 - In practice, the office of an overseer of the poor seems to be understood to be this: To keep an extraordinary look-out, to prevent persons coming to inhabit without certificates, and to fly to the justices to remove them ; and if a man brings a certificate, then to...
Page 43 - Towns where they be dwelling at the time of the proclamation of this statute; and if the people of Cities and other Towns will not or may not suffice to find them, that the said Beggars shall draw them to other Towns within the Hundred, Rape or Wapentake, or to the Towns where they were born, within forty days after the proclamation made, and there shall continually abide during their lives.
Page 137 - 5. That at the end of every year the mafter and overfeers give up their accounts to the two .next juftices of the peace at times by them prefixed, and publicly notified to the inhabitants of each precinct, to the end that they may take any exceptions to fuch accounts, if there be caufe.
Page 107 - Provision of victuals, and not meant for entertainment and harbouring of lewd and idle people to spend and consume their money and their time in lewd and drunken manner: II.
Page 207 - ... under their hands, of all sums of money by them received, or rated and assessed, and not received, and also of all goods, chattels, stock, and materials that shall be in their hands, or in the hands of any of the poor, in order to be wrought, and of all monies paid by such churchwardens and overseers so accounting, and of all other things concerning their said office...
Page 135 - ... 3. There is no power for hiring or erecting a common houfe or place .for their common workhoufe ; which may be in fome refpects, and upon fome occafions, ufeful and necelfary, as fhall be fhewn, -f§.3.