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.".
House of Commons
Category
Books
Date
1777
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3050471.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
243,[1]p. . fol... Bound with: "Report from the committee appointed to inspect and consider the returns ..." ([London], 1787). Identified in 1768 catalogue (entry in later hand): M.1.. Provenance: Bookplate: George Harry Grey (1737-1819) after 1768; anonymous armorial variant 2. Franks 12841.. Binding: Late 18th century[?] purple marbled paper boards; green spine, with gilt title: 'Poor rate 1777'.
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