The Treatment of Poverty in Cambridgeshire, 1597-1834

accounts administration adopted allowed appeal appointed apprenticeship assistance authorities Bench body Book Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cambs certificates charges Charity child churchwardens Collection Committee common concerned considerable continued corporation Council Court direct earlier early eighteenth century Elizabethan employed employment examination example expense four frequently given granted hands head held increased industrial inhabitants interest Isle John justices labour land later less magistrates maintained Master means meetings ment months officers overseers paid parish parish officers parochial pauper period persons Poor Law practice present Quarter Sessions rates received records relief removal Report respect result Royston rural scale Select settled settlement seventeenth century shilling sometimes statute town usually vestry villages wages week weekly whilst whole Wisbech workhouse