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A Treatise on the Poor Law of England; Being a Review of the Origin, and Various Alterations That Have Been Made in the Law of Settlements and Remov
James Dunstan
Paperback. TheClassics.us 2013-09-12.
ISBN 9781230196695
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. On Poor Removals under the Existing hare. The writer would have brought his observations to a close at this point, had there not been another subject of the utmost importance closely connected with rating and settlements. The subject in question, namely, Poor Removals, as in operation under the existing laws, has been occasionally adverted to in the preceding pages, but it has not received any particular consideration. The practice of removals has varied in proportion to the exigencies of the times. In the days of Richard 2, A. D. 1388, the poor were directed to remain in the towns where they were dwelling, unless the inhabitants were either unable or unwilling to support them, in either of which cases they were to remove themselves to the place of their nativity, or, in the language of the statute, "to withdraw themselves to the towns where they were born." The 11 Hen. 7, c. 2, upwards of a century later, required persons who could not sustain themselves, "to resort" to the hundred where they were best known or were born; and later in the same monarch's reign (a.d. 1504), the same provision as to self-removal was re-enacted. But it appears that the poor, when thus compelled to withdraw themselves from one town, and to resort to another, were not over-scrupulous as to the time occupied in the transit, but would loiter and beg by the way, and thus became burdensome to other parishes than the one to which they belonged; wherefore Hen. 8 directed that they should be sworn to return to their own parish or township. However, as the population increased and the poor multiplied, this principle of self-removal was found very inefficient in its operation, and therefore, by the 1 Edward 6, c. 3, A.d. 1547, the officers of cities
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