The History of the Poor: Their Rights, Duties, and the Laws Respecting Them. In a Series of Letters, Том 2J. Deighton, 1794 |
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Сторінка 148 - That the handicraftsmen in each hundred be bound to take every other of their respective apprentices from amongst the boys in some one of the schools in the said hundred without any money, which boys they may so take at what age they please, to be bound to them till the age of twenty-three years, that so the length of time may more than make amends for the usual sums that are given to handicraftsmen with such apprentices. That those also in the hundred who keep in their hands land of their own to...
Сторінка 145 - ... them. We do not suppose that children of three years old will be able at that age to get their livelihoods at the working school, but we are sure that what is necessary for their relief will more effectually have that use if it be distributed to them in bread at that school than if it be given to their fathers in money. What they have at home from their parents is seldom more than bread and water, and that, many of them, very scantily too. If therefore care be taken that they have...
Сторінка 12 - Since the time of Henry VIII the wealth and revenue of the country have been continually advancing, and, in the course of their progress, their pace seems rather to have been gradually accelerated than retarded.
Сторінка 119 - The real recompence of labour, the real quantity of the necessaries and conveniences of life which it can procure to the labourer, has, during the course of the present century, increased perhaps in a still greater proportion than its money price.
Сторінка 16 - ... the rent of land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock ; and constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people, — to those who live by rent, to those who live by wages, and to those who live by profit. These are the three great original and constituent orders of every...
Сторінка 150 - Peace as is aforesaid, for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them, be thought able to keep and maintain their Children...
Сторінка 200 - ... and workmen, which for the following of their work by the day or by the great, in any City, town corporate, market town or village...
Сторінка 147 - This, though at first setting up, it may cost the parish a little, yet we humbly conceive that (the earnings of the children abating the charge of their maintenance, and as much work being required of each of them as they are reasonably able to perform) it will quickly pay its own charges, with an overplus. That where the number of the poor children of any parish is greater than for them all to be employed in one school, they be there divided into two; and the boys and girls, if thought convenient,...
Сторінка 144 - ... management of it: for a great number of children giving a poor man a title to an allowance from the parish, this allowance is given once a week, or once a month, to the father in money...
Сторінка 145 - And to this may be also added, without any trouble, in cold weather, if it be thought needful, a little warm water-gruel ; for the same fire that warms the room may be made use of to boil a pot of it.