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    An ease for overseers of the poore : abstracted from the statutes, allowed by practise, and now reduced into forme, as a necessarie directorie for imploying, releeuing, and ordering of the poore. With an easie and readie table for recording the number, names, ages, exercises and defects of the poore, fit to be obserued of the ouerseers in euery parish. Also hereunto is annexed a prospect for rich men to induce them to giue, and a patterne for poore men to prouoke them to labour, very pertinent to the matter. The principall heads hereof appeare in the next page

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    [London]: Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1601 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  3. Great Britain, Great Britain

    Schedule. Questions, to which, by direction of an act, passed in the sixteenth year of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions, specified in the act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorize and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the parliaments;" answers are to be returned by the overseers of the poor of every parish, township, and place, in wrinting, upon oath, and signed by them; for which purpose the said overseers are to attend the justices of the peace, within their respective jurisdictions, at such times and places as they shall appoint on pain of forfeiting, for every default or neglect, a sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than forty shillings

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    [Aylesbury]: Printed by T. Dagnall, Aylesbury, [1776] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  4. Facts and observations relating to the state of the workhouse and the poor of the township of Sheffield, in 1789 : tending to shew the necessity of erecting a new workhouse, In a healthy Situation, and at a convenient Distance from the Town

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    [Sheffield?]: s.n, [1789?] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  5. Porteous, William [Author]

    A letter to the citizens of Glasgow, containing a short view of the management of the poors funds, under the administration of the General Session; Together with An Account of the Age, Family, Earning, and Provision made for each Pensioner on the Funds of the particular Sessions, by the Towns Hospital, Trades, Boxes, or other Charities, as well as by the Sessions. By a citizen of Glasgow

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    Glasgow: printed by Robert Chapman and Alexander Duncan, [1783] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  12. An Ease for ouerseers of the poore : abstracted from the statutes, allowed by practise, and now reduced into forme as a necessarie directorie for imploying, releeuing, and ordering of the poore

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    S.l.: Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1601 ; Farmington Hills, Mich: Thomson Gale

  13. Cressy, Edmund [Author]

    Captivity improved to spiritual purposes. Or spiritual directions, given to prisoners of all sorts whether debtors or malefactors : Principally designed for the use of those who are prisoners in those prisons which are under the jurisdiction of the city of London, as Newgate, Ludgate, the Counters, &c. Though also applyable to others under the like circumstances else where. To which are annexed directions to those who have their maintenance and education at the publick charge, as in Christ-Church hospital, or cure, as in St. Bartholomew's and St. Thomas's, or reducement to a more thrifty course of life, as in Bridewel, or have been happily restored to their former sense[ ] as in Bethleem, alias Bedlam

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    London: printed by I. Redmayne, 1675 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  14. Cressy, Edmund [Author]

    Spiritual directions for hospitals, houses of correction, and prisons : Particularly suited to the condition of those that have their cures at publick charge, as in the hospitals of St. Thomas, and St. Bartholomew, or education, as in CHrist-Church, or reducement to a more thrifty course of life, as in Bridewell, or are prisoners for debt or crime. A work begun, and finished with the special consent and approbation of the Right Reverend Father in God Humphrey late Lord Bishop of London, now with God

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    London: printed by J. Redmayne, 1675 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  15. Cressy, Edmund [Author]

    Spiritual directions for prisons, houses of correction, and hospitals : Particularly suited to the condition of those that have their cures at publick charge, as in the hospitals of S. Thomas, and S. Bartholomew; or education, as in Christ-Church; or reducement to a more thrifty course of life; as in Bridewel; or are prisoners for debt or crime. A work begun, and finished with the special consent and approbation of the Right Reverend Father in God Humphrey, late Lord Bishop of London, now with God

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    London: printed by J. Redmayne, 1676 ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO

  16. Universal or British Society

    The universal or British Society; as proposed to be established in the metropolis for the advancement and completion of public welfare, of private happiness, of all the political institutions, of the national improvements and of the several internal domestic (however much neglected) means and resources of Great-Britain, of Ireland, and of the empire in general

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    [London]: s.n, [1792?] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  17. A Short and accurate statement of the late disputes between the Board of Control and the East-India Company, on the subject of sending four of His Majesty's regiments to India

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    London: Printed for J. Debrett, in Piccadilly, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  18. Gilbert, Thomas [Author]

    Plan to amend and enforce the act of 23 Geo. III : for the better relief and employment of the poor; and for substituting new resources for their support, which may gradually reduce the Poor's Rates, and, in time, render that Burthen easier to the Public

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    [London]: s.n, [1783] ; Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009

  19. Charles II King of England [Other] ; England and Wales Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)

    By the King. A proclamation touching the charitable collections for relief of the poor distressed by the late dismal fire in the city of London

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    In the Savoy [London]: Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1668 ; Farmington Hills, Mich: Thomson Gale

  20. Charles I King of England [Other] ; England and Wales Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)

    By the King : a proclamation commanding the due execution of the lawes made for setting the poore on worke

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    Imprinted at London: By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXIX [1629] ; Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999

    Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO