 ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other ware and stuff to set the poor on work. And also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and...  Transactions - Page 301by Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - 1887 - 134 pages
...said parish (in such competent sums as they shall think fit) a convenient stock of flux, hemp, wax, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff, to set the poor to work." " What is this," exclaims Malthus, " but saying that the funds for the maintenance of labour... | |
 | 1890 - 986 pages
...the impotent, and the apprenticing of children, and the providing of work for the able, by means of "a convenient stock of flax, hemp, •wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff." The great act of Elizabeth came but slowly into operation. Up to the reign of Charles I. there were... | |
 | Anton Menger - 1891 - 196 pages
...their living by; and also to raise weekly or otherwise ... in the said parish in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit, a convenient...stock, of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron and other necessaries ware and stuff to set the poor on work and also competent sums of money for and towards... | |
 | William Andrews Holdsworth - 1891 - 312 pages
...propriations of tithes, coalmines, or saleable underwoods* in the said parish, in such competent sum and sums of money as they shall think fit, a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, * By the Eating Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Viet. c. 54, sec. 11), it is provided that the poor rates acts shall... | |
 | 1891 - 864 pages
...the impotent, and the apprenticing of children, and the providing of work for the able by means of 'a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff.' The great Act of Elizabeth came but slowly into operation. Up to the reign of Charles I. there were... | |
 | 1891 - 844 pages
...the impotent, and the apprenticing of children, and the providing of work for the able by means of 'a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stull'.' The great Act of Elizabeth came but slowly into operation. Up to the reign of Charles I. there... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1904 - 1052 pages
...to be put forth, whose parents are not able to keep and maintain them. And also for the raising of a convenient stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron and other necessary Ware and Stuff in your said Parish for that purpose ; and also for the providing of necessary relief for all such... | |
 | George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 600 pages
...occupier of lands in the said parish ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron and other stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind and such other among them being poor and not... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1895 - 750 pages
...trade of life to get their living by j and also to raise by taxation a convenient stock of flax, hemp, thread, iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work." Then there was an Act passed in 1819 — the 59th George III., chapter 12— which contains this provision... | |
 | John Little Green - 1896 - 180 pages
...Moreover, the overseers " shall" also raise, weekly or otherwise, by taxation of every inhabitant, "a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron,...and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor to work." They were to raise " competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the... | |
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