Poor Law collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-HUT-027

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of two documents reflecting English Poor Laws dating from approximately 1750 and 1805: A mid 18th century indenture for a poor girl to be apprenticed in the art of husbandry to age 21 or earlier marriage.

An early 19th century printed order, completed in manuscript, for the removal of a poor person, William Brain and his wife Alice, to his parish of settlement. These orders were made if it was feared that a person arriving in a parish may become a charge on the parish's poor law funds.

Dates

Creation: 1750, 1805

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is housed off-site and requires 48-hours' notice for retrieval. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Collection is open for use.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions. It is not necessary to seek our permission as the owner of the physical work to publish or otherwise use public domain materials that we have made available for use, unless Johns Hopkins University holds the copyright.

Biographical / Historical

The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief which existed in England and Wales that developed out of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws being codified in 1587–1598. The Poor Law system was in existence until the emergence of the modern welfare state after the Second World War.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Poor_Laws, accessed 2017 June 28.