1st Edition
The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part II vol 5
346 Pages
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Routledge
What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.
Volume 5 Practices and Principles Regarding Community Responsibilities for the Aged in the Seventeenth Century Introduction Statutes, Legal Documents, Petitions and Instructions An Ease for Overseers of the Poore (1601) ‘An Acte for the Releife of the Poore’ (1601) An Abstract of the Patent Granted by His Majesty, for Erecting a Corporation for Relief of the Poor Widows and Children of Clergy-Men(1678) George Meriton, A Guide for Constables, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor (1679) Penalties by Several Statutes upon Justices of the Peace, Constables, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, and other Officers that Neglect their Duty (1693) To the Most Powerful in Authority, to Unloose the Bonds of Cruelty and Oppression of an Aged Industrious Person without Work or Friends([1697]) Proposals Provision for the Poore (1649) Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy, A Way Propounded to make the Poor in these and other Nations Happy (1659) Good News for the Poor, or An Expedient Humbly Offered for Supplying the Want and Bringing Down the Price of Coles (1674) [Richard Haines], Proposals for Building in Every County a Working Alms-House or Hospital (1677) P. C., A Proposal, Humbly Of er’d … for Raising a Farther Supply towards the Erecting and Maintenance of the Intended College or Hospital at Greenwich, for Ancient and Maimed Mariners and Sea-Men ([1694]) [Richard Dunning], Bread for the Poor (1698) M. D., A Present Remedy for the Poor (1700) Observations upon a Paper intituled, Reasons … why a Bill pretended to give Further Powers to the Corporation for Setting the Poor of the City of London and Liberties thereof to Work, Should Not Pass into a Law ([1700]) 1Parish Records Cratf eld Churchwardens’ Accounts (1617–23) Almshouse Accounts Records of Roger Reede’s Charity, Romford (1614–81) To the Right Honourable, the Lords in the High Court of Parliament Assembled ([1644]) Thomas Holt, Orders and Rules Appointed by the Last Will and Testament of Sir Thomas Holt (1656) Mary, Dowager Lady Petre, ‘Letter Concerning the Admission of a Poor Woman to the Almshouses’ (1680) Theophilus Alye, Commonplace Book (1679–1716) Accounts and Minutes of Braintree Charity Feofees (1553–1733) The Case of Ewelm Hospital ([1691]) Editorial Notes
Biography
Lynn Botelho, Susannah R Ottaway, Anne Kugler
