Abstracts of the returns made by the overseers of the poor, in pursuance of an act passed in the sixteenth year of His Present Majesty's reign : 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."

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Proceedings. 1777-05-15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor laws--Great Britain.

Poor laws.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

243 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

[London] : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Issued as a Parliamentary paper.

Entirely comprised of tables of statistics.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

Lambert, 3265

English Short Title Catalog, N49553.

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