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Total number of records: 134

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Brotherton Collection54
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society42
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2

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poor laws134
poor59
education38
charity laws and legislation38
public welfare12
working class7
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charities5
municipal incorporation3
municipal corporations2

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Great Britain46
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Sheffield (England)1
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Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into the Education of the Poor38
Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)38
Great Britain7
Sheffield Union. Board of Guardians5
Eden, Sir Frederick Morton (1766-1809)4
Parker, Hugh, D. 18614
Dunn, Thomas (Alderman of Sheffield)3
Zouch, Henry (1725?-1795)2
Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-18502
Parker, John, 1799-18812

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Archive File

Monthly disbursements of Richard Sutterby, Overseer of the Poor

Sutterby, Richard

1786-1787

Accounts of the payments made by Richard Sutterby (an Overseer of the Poor), 'beginning the 8th day of October 1786'

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Select cases and commentary on settlement in poor law, by John Stanhope and one other

Stanhope, John

c.1750

The cases and commentary by Stanhope are preceded, in another hand, by further reports on cases in King's Bench on poor law settlement

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Cottage politics, or, Letters on the new Poor-Law Bill

Blakey, Robert (1795-1878)

[1837]

Advertisements (8, 4 p.) at end.

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