 | William Cunningham - Great Britain - 1892 - 798 pages
...turn incorrigible rogues, and others to perish for want " : it adds, " that by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going...destroy", and when they have consumed it, then to another 1 Eden (i. 144) states that no rates were levied in some parishes for 20, 30 or 40 years after 1601.... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1892 - 800 pages
...turn incorrigible rogues, and others to perish for want " : it adds, " that by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going...cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy8, and when they have consumed it, then to another 1 Eden (i. 144) states that no rates were... | |
 | John Cummings (Ph.D.) - 1895 - 192 pages
...— Ibid., vol. i, 109. 'The preamble of the English statute states that the act was passed because poor people " are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavor to settle themselves in those parishes where is the best stock, the largest commons or waste... | |
 | William Wolfe Capes - Bramshott (England : Parish) - 1901 - 390 pages
...vigilance in dealing with the vagrants and the homeless. The Act of 1662 declared that "poor people ... do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stocke, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy,... | |
 | Paul Felix Aschrott - Old age pensions - 1902 - 400 pages
...such parishes or places where they are legally settled : " And " whereas by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore to endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons... | |
 | John Theodore Dodd - Poor laws - 1906 - 158 pages
...restored," which renders it worthy of special remark. The Act states that " by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going...there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes 1 to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy; and when they have consumed it,... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1907 - 662 pages
...turn incorrigible rogues, and other to perish for want": it adds, " that by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going...largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the bcene given and are now ceased, and very few legacies are now given to Hospitals, the Rents and Revenues... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1908 - 516 pages
...turn incorrigible rogues, and other to perish for want": it adds, " that by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going...largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the beene given and are now ceased, and very few legacies are now given to Hospitals, the Rents and Revenues... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1908 - 520 pages
...turn incorrigible rogues, and other to perish for want " : it adds, " that by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going...largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the beene given and are now ceased, and very few legacies are now given to Hospitals, the Rents and Revenues... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - Agricultural laborers - 1908 - 502 pages
...to those described in the passage already quoted from the Settlement Act of 1662. "Poor people .... endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where...and the most woods for them to burn and destroy." The commons, of course, could not support unlimited numbers. The reader will now understand why war... | |
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Majesty tliat it may be enacted . . . that whereas by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock,... 
