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Vagrancy in Law and Practice under the Old Poor Law
Author(s): Eccles, Audrey
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Volume Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Routledge |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| ISBN: | 9781138108738 |
| Book ID: | 017946 |
| Catalogue(s): | History - British |
250pp, with occasional black and white illustrations. In laminated, illustrated card covers 8vo. Card covers a little edge worn along fore-edge, very gently rubbed at corners, short mild flat crease over rear upper corner. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Examination of the complicated Poor Laws system for dealing with poverty and vagrancy in 18th century England, and its impact, with detailed references to particular cases drawing on Quarter Session records from Westmorland, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Lancashire and Middlesex.
Keywords:
Poor Laws
Poverty
Vagrancy
18th Century England
Vagrant Act
