La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII

La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII
Stocks of materials for poor to work on to be set up in every town, and houses
of correction in every county for those refusing to work.
1598 For the Relief of the Poor
(39 Eliz. 1 c. 30)
(i) Churchwardens and four overseers in every parish to set children and
poor to work, relieve the impotent and bind out pauper children as
apprentices, and tax 'every inhabitant and occupier of lands' in the
parish for these purposes. They can distrain the goods of those
refusing to pay.
(ii) Two JPs to nominate the overseers and take their accounts.
(iii) JPs may tax some parishes to he1p others and shall (in sessions) hear
appeals against rates.
(iv) Begging forbidden except by those allowed to beg food in their own
parishes.
*1598 For the Punishment of Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars
(39 Eliz. I c. 40)
(i) Earlier Vagrancy Acts repealed.
(ii) Vagabonds to be whipped by order of a JP or of parish officers and sent
with passport to place of birth or last dwelling for a year.
(iii) Dangerous and incorrigible rogues to be committed to gaol and may be
banished by sessions.
1601 For the Relief of ¡he Poor
(43 Eliz. 1 c. 2)
Substantially like the 1598 Relief Act, but reference to begging for food omitted
and two overseers sufficient in small parishes.
1604 For the Charitable Relief and Ordering of Persons infected with the Plague
(I James I c. 3 1)
Rates to be levied for the infected and penalties imposed on those leaving
infected houses.
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