 | Joan Parkes - 1925 - 446 sider
...established a new and elaborate system. The Act was declared 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... | |
 | Sidney Webb - 1927 - 480 sider
...is very great and exceeding burdensome " can easily be believed. But the Act then proceeds to recite that " whereas, by reason of some defects in the law,...and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in these parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages [on],... | |
 | Poor law conference - 1876 - 490 sider
...— a necessary, but complex, branch of English Poor Law. The preamble to this act declares that, " by reason of some defects in the law, poor people...from going from one parish to another, and therefore to endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons... | |
 | Sir Charles Grant Robertson - 1904 - 478 sider
...CHARLES II. CAP. 12, 1662. An Act for the better relief of the poor of this Kingdom. Be it enacted . . . That whereas by reason of some defects in the law,...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock . . . and when they have consumed it then to another parish, and at last become... | |
 | William Edward Tate - 1969 - 408 sider
...constant though not very effective warfare. The act of 1662 gives a graphic picture of the poor who were not restrained from going from one parish to another,...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... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 sider
...out, you were harried. As it was put in 1 662, in the preamble to a new Act: by reason of some defect in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and do therefore endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2008 - 1148 sider
...incorrect, inverts the order of the ideas which prompted them. The preamble complains that owing to defects in the law 'poor people are not restrained...endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock,' and so forth, and the Act therefore gives the justices power, 'within forty... | |
 | Lynn Hollen Lees - 1998 - 396 sider
...legislature branded migration by the poor as threatening and illegitimate: It regretted that "poor persons are not restrained from 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... | |
 | Warren Montag - 1999 - 172 sider
...the Poor Law Amendment Act, commonly referred to as the Act of Settlement (Douglas, 1955-79, 464): '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... | |
 | 1925 - 656 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... | |
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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... 
