Skip to main content

Providing for the Poor: List of Illustrations

Providing for the Poor
List of Illustrations
    • Notifications
    • Privacy
  • Project HomeProviding for the Poor
  • Projects
  • Learn more about Manifold

Notes

Show the following:

  • Annotations
  • Resources
Search within:

Adjust appearance:

  • font
    Font style
  • color scheme
  • Margins
table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. List of Tables
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Notes on Contributors
  10. Preface: The Small Bills and Petty Finance Project
  11. Introduction: The Old Poor Law
  12. I. Paupers and Vagrants
    1. 1. Accounting for Illegitimacy: Parish Politics and the Poor
    2. Interlude 1
    3. 2. Clothing the Poor
    4. Interlude 2
    5. 3. Vagrancy, Poor Relief and the Parish
    6. Interlude 3
  13. II. Providers and Enablers and their Critics
    1. 4. Women, Business and the Old Poor Law
    2. Interlude 4
    3. 5. The Overseers’ Assistant: Taking a Parish Salary, 1800–1834
    4. Interlude 5
    5. 6. Who Cares? Mismanagement, Neglect and Suffering in the Final Decades of the Old Poor Laws
    6. Interlude 6
  14. III. Public Histories
    1. 7. Public Histories and Collaborative Working
    2. Conclusion
  15. Index

List of illustrations

2.1

Detail of a bill for material supplied by Joshua Harrison, 1776

2.2

Margaret Fenton’s bill for making gowns, frocks and stays, 26 April [1823]

2.3

Coarse linen stays, 1760–80

3.1

Settlement data recorded by Henry Adams, 1777–86

3.2

The origin of vagrants, 1777–86: moderated by population

3.3

Sussex vagrants, 1820–3.

3.4

Distribution of vagrants by county, 1820–3

3.5

Distribution of vagrants, 1777–86 and 1820–3

3.6

Expenditure per vagrant by county, 1820–3

3.7

Extract of an overseers’ voucher for Wednesbury, Staffordshire, showing ale for E. Malbourn’s funeral, 1801

4.1

Pre-printed bill for expenses at the Griffin Inn, Penrith, submitted to the overseers of Threlkeld, c.1800

5.1

Advertisement for an Assistant Overseer, Greystoke, 1835

5.2

Advertisement for a Master and Mistress of St Mary’s Workhouse, Carlisle, 1785

6.1

John Rutter’s observations of two poorhouses in Shaftesbury, 1819

6.2

Payment to Abel Rooker for half a year’s contract for Darlaston Workhouse, Staffordshire, 1822

Annotate

Next Chapter
List of Tables
PreviousNext
Copyright © The authors 2022
Powered by Manifold Scholarship. Learn more at
Opens in new tab or windowmanifoldapp.org