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The Church, God's appointed guardian of the poor, or, The poor man's advocate / by the Rev. Herbert Smith, B.A., curate of Stratton, and chaplain to the new Forest Union Workhouse, Hants.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Herbert, B.A., author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Reform, and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--Great Britain.
- Poor.
- Almshouses.
- Great Britain.
- Poor laws--Great Britain.
- Poor laws.
- Almshouses--Great Britain.
- New Forest Union Workhouse.
- Working class--Great Britain.
- Working class.
- Labor movement--Great Britain.
- Labor movement.
- Labor--Great Britain.
- Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages in various pagings) : illustrations.
- Manufacture:
- London : Sold by F. and J. Rivington, L. And G. Seeley, Hatchard and Son, Nisbet and Company, and Burns, 1842.
- Other Title:
- Poor man's advocate
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1842]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- A letter to the people of England in behalf of the deserving poor
- A second letter to the people of England ...
- A letter to the bishops and parochial clergy in behalf of the deserving poor
- A second letter to the bishops and parochial clergy ...
- A letter to the labouring classes in their own behalf
- A second letter to the labouring classes ...
- A letter to the Poor Law Commissioners in behalf of the deserving poor
- Letters to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham ... and the Rev. Thomas Chalmers ... on the poor law question
- A letter defending the new poor law, in reply to a letter to the Rev. Herbert Smith, by a layman
- Correspondence with the Poor Law Commissioners on the principle and working of the new poor law
- Part II. Correspondence with the Poor Law Commissioners ...
- An account of a union chaplaincy
- An account of the situation and treatment of the women with illegitimate children in the New Forest Union Workhouse
- An account (continued) of the situation and treatment of the women with illegitimate children in the New Forest Union Workhouse.
- Notes:
- Collection, re-issued with a special title page, of 14 separately published pamphlets, eight of which were issued together under the title: The poor man's advocate, in 1839.
- Reproduction of the original from the Congregational Library & Archives.
- OCLC:
- 65274810
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