 | William Cunningham - 1908 - 516 sider
...which doth enforce many to turn incorrigible rogues, and other to perish for want": it adds, " that by reason of some defects in the law, poor people...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the beene given and are... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - 1908 - 502 sider
...abuses complained of in the preamble to that statute did actually exist:—"By reason of some defect in the law, poor people are not restrained from going...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - 1906 - 716 sider
...II. c. 12, 1662, was passed, which, after reciting that " by reason of some defects in the law poore people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore doe endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stocke, the largest commons... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond, Barbara Bradby Hammond - 1913 - 446 sider
...established a new and elaborate system. The Act was neclared to be necessary in the preamble, because ' by reason 'of some defects in the law, poor people...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them... | |
 | Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney - 1914 - 776 sider
...such supplies as are necessary, may it please your moat Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted . . . that whereas by reason of some defects in the law...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them... | |
 | Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney - 1914 - 760 sider
...as are necessary, may it please your most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted . . . thatwhereaa by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from 0ue parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there... | |
 | H. R. Hodges - 1917 - 106 sider
...the foundation of which was a statute of 1662, the provisions of which were based on the fact that " by reason of some defects in the law, poor people...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is best stock " — a state of affairs which is in accordance with modern economics. Abundant... | |
 | Jamieson Boyd Hurry - 1921 - 448 sider
...but also through the whole kingdom, is very great and exceeding burthensome." . . . Further that *' by reason of some defects in the law poor people are...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them... | |
 | Robert Wilson Kelso - 1922 - 210 sider
...Cavalier Parliament in 1662 passed the Act of Settlement. The reason as stated in the preamble was that, by reason of some defects in the law, poor people...going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavor to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons... | |
 | John Joseph Clarke - 1922 - 396 sider
...occasioned by reason of some defects in the law concerning the settling of the poor ; by reason of which poor people are not restrained from going from one...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them... | |
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Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted . . . that whereas by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there... 
