Poor-law

When a flagrant case of bone-crushing or Poor-law abuse occurs in the world, who so eloquent as THE TIMES to point it out?

The Book of Snobs 2006

So much the worse; and it was one of the great objections to the Irish Poor-law system, that under it no provision was made for the profitable employment of able-bodied paupers.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

In 1835 he was placed upon the commission of inquiry into the relief of the poor, (on the report of which was founded the Irish Poor-law,) and the state of the Church in

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

The Poor-law expenditure under the old system and the new showed a striking contrast.

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

The reader will be surprised at his remedy, and the modern Poor-law Commissioners, those "Indociles pauperiem pati," will deny the test of destitution, and feel a separating impulse; for he continues -- "I took a wife, and went to Pisa, where I mended the roads about the gates, and staid four years."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

_That "strain" again_; as the Poor-law Commissioner generously said to the water-gruel sieve.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

Parliamentary "Blue Books," and Poor-law documents, those towns are always spelled Carnarvon, Carmarthen.

Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

Agricultural population were always on the brink of starvation, and when the Blight came it was impossible to meet the disaster -- The views of the _Morning Chronicle_ on the Government of Ireland -- Mr. Labouchere quotes the Poor-law Enquiry of 1835 and the Devon

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

Poor-law reform was at this time occupying the attention of the nation, and apparently also of the legislature.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

This took in the first place the form of enactments for the local collection of voluntary contributions to relief-funds; and culminated in the Acts of the last five years of the reign, substituting compulsory for voluntary contribution, and establishing that Poor-law system which remained substantially unchanged until its reformation in the nineteenth century.

England under the Tudors