 | Robert Wilson Kelso - 1922 - 216 pàgines
...from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavor to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and most woods for them to burn and destroy, and when they have consumed it, then to another parish, and... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1924 - 758 pàgines
...to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or waste to build cottages, and the most woods for them to...to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stock, when it is liable to be devoured by strangers." To remedy this evil the Act proceeded to apply... | |
 | Joan Parkes - 1925 - 446 pàgines
...from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes...to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stock, when it is liable to be devoured by strangers". By the Act any new-comer, within forty days... | |
 | Sidney Webb - 1927 - 480 pàgines
...from one parish to another, 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], and the most woods for them to burn and destroy ; and when they have consumed it, then to another... | |
 | Poor law conference - 1876 - 490 pàgines
...themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons, or the most woods to destroy, and when they have consumed it then to another...parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds.' The language of this Act is scarcely applicable to the present day, but the effects would be much the... | |
 | William Edward Tate - 1969 - 408 pàgines
...from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes...another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds The act of 1666 informs us that the poor, living 'idly and unimployed ' in gaol, become debauched,... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 pàgines
...from one parish to another, and do therefore endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes...cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy. There had been so many previous attempts to restrain such men and women from seeking their living.... | |
 | David Levine - 1987 - 268 pàgines
...the preamble to the 1662 Act of Settlement, moved from parish to parish "to settle themselves where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes...cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy".38 Again and again scholars have shown that arable, closed villages were smaller and grew... | |
 | Lynn Hollen Lees - 1998 - 396 pàgines
...from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavor to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes...then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds."lft They posited a downward cycle from migration into slash-and-burn agriculture and finally... | |
 | Warren Montag - 1999 - 172 pàgines
...from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavor 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 to destroy, and when they have consumed it then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds'... | |
| |
Majesty that it may be 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 is the best stock,... 
