The Speenhamland County: Poverty and the Poor Laws in Berkshire, 1782-1834 |
Contents
The Character of the Berkshire Bench | 72 |
The Justices and the Localities | 144 |
Tables | 221 |
Copyright | |
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Abingdon able-bodied according Accounts agricultural laborers aid of wages allowances in aid April Berkshire justices Berkshire magistrates Berkshire parishes Berkshire's Bicheno Bray bread Bristol burden Charles Dundas Chieveley Cholsey constable conveying Cookham county bench decade December Drayton East Hendred employment enclosure England and Wales English Epiph Epiphany Sessions families Faringdon February Gilbert's Act harvest History House of Commons Hungerford ibid Ireland Irish Irish vagrants January John Walter Law Inquiry Commissioners Little Coxwell London Lysons Maidenhead Majesty's Poor Law March Mavor Newbury nineteenth century November October Old Poor Law Pangbourne parish officers Parliament passim passing Irish paupers persons Poor Law Inquiry poor rates poor relief QS Roll QSOB Quarter Sessions rate-payers Reading Mercury Returns scale Select Committee select vestry Sept Sess Sessns Shinfield shortages Speen Speenhamland Sunninghill Thatcham Tilehurst Uffington urged Vagrancy Laws vagrants Wallingford Webbs wheat White Waltham William Windsor Wokingham workhouse