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General introduction to statistical account of Upper Canada [electronic resource] : compiled with a view to a good system of emigration, in connexion with a reform of the poor laws / (London : Simpkin and Marshall and J.M. Richardson, 1822), by Robert Gourlay (page images at HathiTrust)
The record [electronic resource] : letters on poor law reform and emigration / (Edinburgh : W. Burness, 1830), by Robert Gourlay (page images at HathiTrust)
Glances at inner England [electronic resource] : a lecture delivered in the United States and Canada / (London : H.S. King, 1874), by Edward Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of the vice-regal commission on poor law reform in Ireland. (Dublin : Printed for H.M.S.O. by Alexander Thom, 1906), by Ireland. Poor Law Reform Commission and William L. Micks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A treatise on the poor laws of Pennsylvania / (Philadelphia : T. & J. W. Johnson, 1899), by Calvin G. Beitel (page images at HathiTrust)
The poor law / (London ; New York : Macmillan, 1893), by T. W. Fowle (page images at HathiTrust)
Code relating to the poor in the state of New York : containing such laws of a general and special nature in force in 1870, as relate to the support and maintenance of the poor / (Albany : Weed, Parsons and Company, 1870), by Edward Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
Insurance and saving : a report on the existing opportunites for working-class thrift. With an introduction on the poor law as an obstacle to thrift and voluntary insurance. (London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., ;, 1892), by Charity Organization Society (London) (page images at HathiTrust)
The guardian's guide, (London, Knight, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Social wreckage : a review of the laws of England as they affect the poor / (London : W. Isbister, 1888), by Francis Peek (page images at HathiTrust)
A letter to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., on the principle and operation of the new poor law : with an appendix / (London : W. Clowes, 1842), by Thomas Curteis (page images at HathiTrust)
The Fleet papers : being letters to Thomas Thornhill, esquire, of Riddlesworth, in the County of Norfolk from Richard Oastler, his prisoner in the Fleet with occasional communications from friends. (London : John Pavey, 1841-), by Richard Oastler (page images at HathiTrust)
The Law of poor removals and chargeability in England, Scotland and Ireland, with suggestions for assimilation and amendment. A paper read before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 23rd May, 1871. (Dublin, R. D. Webb, 1871), by W. Neilson Hancock (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor laws in Ireland, considered in their probable effects upon the capital, the prosperity, and the progressive improvement of that country, (London, James Ridgway, 1831), by John Benn Walsh Ormathwaite (page images at HathiTrust)
A Compendium of the laws respecting the poor: including the digest of Bott's Poor laws; with the adjudged cases and acts of Parliament, continued to Easter term 1803. (London, J. Butterworth, 1803), by Edmund. Laws relating to the poor Bott (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay to illustrate the rights of the poor, by law: being a commentary on the Statute of King Henry the VII, Chapter 12, with observations on the practice of suing and defending In forma' pauperis. ... (London, Edward Dunn, 1815), by W. R. Minchin (page images at HathiTrust)
Plan of a poor-law for Ireland, with a review of the arguments for and against it. (London, J. Ridgway, 1833), by George Poulett Scrope (page images at HathiTrust)
The laws relating to the poor / (London : Printed by A Strahan, law-printer to the King ... for J. Butterworth, 1807), by Edmund Bott, Francis Const, statutes Great Britain. Laws, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
Report from the Select Committee on the Poor Laws : with the minutes of evidence taken before the committee : and an appendix / ([London? : s.n., 1817?]), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Poor Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
Report from the Select Committee on Labourers Wages. ([London : s.n.], 1824), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Select Committee on Labourers Wages (page images at HathiTrust)
Select committee on poor laws. : Report from the Select committee on the poor laws ; with the minutes of evidence taken before the committee. Ordered...to be printed, July 4, 1817. (London : [s.n.], [1817]), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
The Principle of the English poor laws : illustrated and defended by an historical view of indigence in civil society, with observations and suggestions relative to their improved administration / (London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1829), by Frederick Page (page images at HathiTrust)
An address to the lords, embodying the spirit of the Irish grand juries' petitions on the poor relief bill ; with an appeal in favour of the aged, infirm, and destitite agricultural labourers. (London : J. Hatchard, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
An inquiry into the nature of benevolence : chiefly with a view to elucidate the principles of the poor laws, and to show their immoral tendency / (London : R. Hunter, 1817), by J. E. Bicheno (page images at HathiTrust)
The outcry against the new poor law : or, Who is the poor man's friend? (London : J. Green, 1841), by Thomas Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
The act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the poor in England and Wales. (London, Printed by G. Eyre and A. Spottiswoode, printers, 1834), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
A letter to the Right Honourable George Canning, on the principle and the administration of the English poor laws. (London, T. Cadell, 1823), by William Carmalt (page images at HathiTrust)
Some thoughts on the present state of the English peasantry. Written in consequence of Mr. Whitbread's motion, in the House of Commons, Feb. 19, 1807; relative to an amendment of the poor laws. (London, Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1807), by J. N. Brewer (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the English poor law, in connexion with the legislation and other circumstances affecting the condition of the people. (London, J. Murray; [etc., etc.], 1854-99), by George Nicholls and Thomas Mackay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The present poverty of Ireland convertible into the means of her improvement, under a well-administered poor law. With preliminary view of the state of agriculture in Ireland. (London, C. Knight, and Co., 1838), by Robert Bermingham Clements Clements (page images at HathiTrust)
Decisions of the Court of King's Bench, upon the laws relating to the poor. Originally published by Edmund Bott. Now revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged; with tables of the cases; and a complete digest of the principal matters; the 3d ed.; in which the statutes; the reported decisions, from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to Michaelmas term the thirty-third of George the Third; and many cases never before published upon this subject, are properly arranged; and the whole system of the poor laws placed in a clear and perspicuous point of view; (London, Whieldon and Butterworth, 1793), by Francis Const, etc Great Britain. Laws, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, ed. by Edmund Bott (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the poor; their rights, duties, and the laws respecting them. In a series of letters. (London, Printed for J. Deighton, 1793-1794), by Thomas Ruggles (page images at HathiTrust)
On the sufficiency of the parochial system, without a poor rate, for the right management of the poor. (Glasgow, Wm. Collins, 1841), by Thomas Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
A short inquiry into the policy, humanity and past effects of the poor laws; and into the principles upon which any measures for their improvement should be conducted; in which are included a few considerations on the questions of political oeconomy, most intimately connected with the subject ; particularly on the supply of food in England. By one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for three inland counties. (London, J. Hatchard [etc.], 1807), by John Weyland (page images at HathiTrust)
Considerations on the impolicy and pernicious tendency of the poor laws; with remarks on the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons upon them; and suggestions for improving the condition of the poor. (London, printed for R. Fenner, 1818), by Charles Jerram and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Poor Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
Historical dissertations on the law and practice of Great Britain, and particularly of Scotland, with regard to the poor; on the modes of charity; and on the means of promoting the improvement of the people: together with a selection of facts and documents, and miscellaneous inquiries, illustrative of the management of the poor in Scotland, and in various parts of the continent of Europe, &c. (Edinburgh, Printed for P. Hill, 1819), by Robert Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry, and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family; to which are added, instructions relative to the selecting, the cutting and the bleaching of the plants of English grass and grain, for the purpose of making hats and bonnets; and also instructions for erecting and using ice-houses, after the Virginian manner : to which is added, The poor man's friend : or, A defence of the rights of those who do the work and fight the battles / (Hartford : S. Andrus, 1848), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
The state and the doctor. (London, New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1910), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Introductory lectures on political-economy ... / (London : J.W. Parker and Son, 1855), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
Introductory lectures on political economy : delivered at Oxford, in Easter term, 1831 / (London : B. Fellowes, 1847), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, on the expediency of enlarging the Irish poor-law to the full extent of the poor-law of England / (London : J. Ridgway, 1846), by George Poulett Scrope (page images at HathiTrust)
Remarks on the poor laws, and on the method of providing for the poor, in Scotland. (Edinburgh, T. Clark, 1834), by David Monypenny (page images at HathiTrust)
Transactions of the Corporation of the Poor, in the city of Bristol, during a period of 126 years, alphabetically arranged, with observations, and a prefatory address to the Guardians of 1826. (Bristol, P. Rose, 1826), by James Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
A proposed plan for the equalization of the poor rates : throughout the various parishes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland : providing for the abolition of the law of settlement : rendering thereby the removal of paupers unnecessary, and saving annually thousands of pounds to the rate-payers, also, avoiding parochial litigation, and greatly benefiting the poor / (London : L.J. Hansard, 1846), by G. L. Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Pleas of the crown : in two parts : or, A methodical summary of the principal matters relating to that subject. : with several hundred references, never before printed, to the ancient and modern books of the law : and likewise three other treatises by Sir Matthew Hale, viz. Of Sheriffs accompts, Trial of witches, and Provisions for the poor / (London : Printed by J.N. assignee of Edw. Sayer, for D. Brown, M. Wotton, W. Mears, J. Brown, and T. Woodward, 1716), by Matthew Hale and Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
Two lectures on the checks of population, delivered before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas term 1832. (Oxford : Printed by S. Collingwood for the author, 1833), by W. F. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
Simple measures, by which the recurrence of famines may be prevented, and the pressure of the poor laws greatly abated, by a slight and partical change in our common agricultural practice. ([n. p.], 1816), by William Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
Decisions of the Court of King's Bench, upon settlement-cases : from the death of Lord Raymond, in March 1732, to June 1776, inclusive : during which time Lord Hardwicke, Sir William Lee, Sir Dudley Ryder, and Lord Mansfield, presided in that court : to which are added two tables, one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters / (Dublin : Printed for J. Milliken, 1790), by James Burrow, William Murray Mansfield, Dudley Ryder, William Lee, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
Whigs and radicals : Lord John Russell's exhortation / (London : Charles Ely, [ca. 1835]), by John Arthur Roebuck, Henry S. Chapman, William Allen, Thomas Chalmers, and John Russell Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the Poor Law Board. (London : H.M.S.O.), by Great Britain. Poor Law Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Pamphlets on the Irish poor laws. (S.l., 1830-47) (page images at HathiTrust)
The laws respecting parish matters : containing the several offices and duties of churchwardens, overseers of the poor, constables, watchmen, and other parish officers : the laws concerning rates and assessments, settlements and removals of the poor, and of the poor in general ... / (London : W. Clarke, 1799), by James Barry Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
Cases and resolutions of cases adjudg'd in the Court of King's Bench concerning settlements and removals, from the first year of King George I. to the present reign [1685-1726] : most of them adjudg'd in the time, when Lord Parker sat Chief Justice there. ([London] In the Savoy : Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer), for W. Meadows, 1729), by Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
Official reports ... (London : Pub. under the authority of the Central Committee of Poor Law Conferences, W.G. Lewis [secretary]), by Poor Law Conferences (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Four lectures on poor laws, delivered in Trinity Term, 1834. (Dublin, Curry, 1834), by Mountifort Longfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters on the poor-laws / (London : Printed by G. Odell, 1847), by Thomas Story Spedding (page images at HathiTrust)
Two reports addressed to His Majesty's commissioners appointed to inquire into the administration and operation of the poor laws / (London : B. Fellowes ; Manchester : T. Sowler, 1834), by C. H. Cameron, Giovanni Arrivabene, John Welsford Cowell, John Wrottesley Wrottesley, and Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
Second annual report of the poor law commissioners for England and Wales; : with appendixes A.B.C.D. (London: : Published by authority, by Charles Knight & Co., 22, Ludgate Street. : Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street., 1836), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners, John Smithlead, printer William Clowes and Sons, and sponsor Great Britain. Home Office, contrib. by Charles Knight & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
A letter to Thomas Sherlock Gooch, esq. M. P., upon the present ruinous system of relieving unemployed men with money instead of providing them with work : and proposing a "legislative plan," for the general employment of the poor, with "provisional enactments," adapted to local circumstances / (Halesworth [Eng.] : T. Tippell; [etc., etc.], 1824), by Anthony Collett (page images at HathiTrust)
National thoughts, recommended to the serious attention of the public : with an appendix, shewing the damages arising from a bounty on corn / (London : Printed for R. Dodsley, [1751]), by Charles Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)
Surplus population and poor-law bill : a comedy in three acts / ([England : s.n., 1835?]), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
Social welfare laws of the forty-eight states. (Des Moines, Ia. : Wendell Huston company, 1930), by Wendell Huston (page images at HathiTrust)
Code relating to the poor in the state of New York : containing such laws of a general and special nature, in force in 1870, as relate to the support and maintenance of the poor / (Albany : Weed, Parsons and company, 1870), by Edward Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
A study of the poor debtor law of Massachusetts and some details of its practice : with a chonological list of the statutes of Massachusetts, a table of the statutes of the other states, the territories, and the United States, and a list of books concerning poor debtors / (Boston : Little, 1883), by Charles Edward Grinell (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the English Poor Law in connection with the state of the country and the condition of the people. (New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898), by George Nicholls and Thomas Mackay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Circular letter of the Local Government Board. Together with Extracts from general orders relating to the duties of relieving officers and poor-law medical officers. (Manchester : "Poor-law officers' journal", [1896?]), by Great Britain. Local Government Board, Great Britain. Poor Law Board, and Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Problem der Armut (Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1912), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The break-up of the Poor law : being part one of the Minority report of the Poor law commission /, by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Minority report of the Poor Law Commission, ed. by Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Poor law commissioners' report of 1834 : copy of the report made in 1834 by the commissioners for inquiring into the administration and practical operation of the poor laws. (London : Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Darling & son, ltd., 1905), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the proceedings ... (London, 1908), by Central Poor Law Conference (36th : 1908 : London) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Digest of welfare laws enacted September, 1935-September,1936. ([Washington, 1936]), by United States. Work Projects Administration. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
An act of the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, for the relief and imployment of the poor, and the punishing of vagrants, and other disorderly persons, within the City of London, and liberties thereof : whereby is constituted a corporation, or body politique, consisting of a president, deputy, treasurer and assistants, for the due ordering and putting in execution the said act. (London : Printed by John Field for Edward Husband, 1649), by England and Wales Parliament, Edward Husband, John Field, and Henry Scobell (page images at HathiTrust)
The break-up of the Poor law: being part one of the Minority report of the Poor law commission, (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1909), by Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, and Great Britain. Royal Commission on Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Minority report of the Poor Law Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
The abolition of Poor law guardians (London : Fabian Society, 1906), by Edward R. Pease and Fabian Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The design of a law : for promoting the pacification of Ireland, and the improvement of the Irish territory and population, submitted to His Majesty's government, the legislature, and the public / (Dublin : George Folds, no. 1, Saint Andrew Street (opposite Trinity-Street), 1834), by Valentine Cloncurry, James Collins, and George Folds (page images at HathiTrust)
The early history of English poor relief. (New York, Barnes & Noble, 1900), by E. M. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
On the means of benefitting the poor (London : [publisher not identified], 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
A few observations respecting the present state of the poor; and the defects of the poor laws, with some remarks upon parochial assessments, and expenditures. (London : T. Cadell, 1802), by H. Bate Dudley (page images at HathiTrust)
The reform of the Poor Law. (London : A. R. Mowbray, 1908), by Percy Dearmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Destitution and suggested remedies, (London, P. S. King & Son, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
English poor law policy. (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1910), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of George Coode, esq., to the Poor Law Board on the law of settlement and removal of the poor : being a further report in addition to those printed in 1850. ([London] : Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 1851), by George Coode and Great Britain. Poor Law Board (page images at HathiTrust)
The opinions of Dr. Chalmers concerning political economy and social reform / (Edinburgh : D. Douglas, 1912), by Thomas Chalmers and Grace Chalmers Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Parochial rates and settlements considered : being a reply to queries nos. 11 & 58 proposed by the commissioners appointed to inquire into the poor laws / (London : J. Hatchard, 1832), by Country justice (page images at HathiTrust)
An act for discharging poor prisoners unable to satisfie their creditors. ([London] : [Printed for Edward Husband], [1649]), by England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons, Henry Scobell, and Edward Husband (page images at HathiTrust)
The law and practice of rating, both within and without the metropolis. (London, Butterworth & co.; [etc., etc.], 1920), by Walter Cranley Ryde (page images at HathiTrust)
Laws relating to the support of poor persons, juvenile courts, etc. / (Lansing, Mich. : Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1914), by Michigan, Frederick C. Martindale, and Michigan. Dept. of State (page images at HathiTrust)
Redogo relse fo r fattigva rdslagstiftning och fattigva rd i en del fra mmande la nder. (Stockholm : P. Palmquist, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Decisions of the Local government board, collected from all sources, and reprinted from the Local government chronicle, 1902[-16] (London : C. Knight & co., ltd., 1904-17), by Great Britain. Local Government Board and William Augustus Casson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Fattigva rdslagstiftningen ... (Stockholm : Tryckt hos P. Palmquists aktiebolag, 1915), by Sweden. Fattigva rdslagstiftningskommitte n, Jacob Theophil Andersson, Gustaf Lindstedt, Johan Wide n, and Sweden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Poor law reform vita tertia; the case for the guardians, (London, P.S. King & Son, 1910), by William Chance, Peregrine Sydney Goldwin Propert, Edmond Henry Wodehouse, and Great Britain. National committee for poor law reform (page images at HathiTrust)
Plan for the relief of the poor in Ireland, with observations on the English and Scotch poor laws, addressed to the landed proprietors of Ireland. (London, J.M. Richardson, 1830), by William Smith O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
The rate in aid : a letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Roden, K.P. / (Dublin : J. McGlashan, 1849), by Isaac Butt and Robert Jocelyn Roden (page images at HathiTrust)
Provisions for the treatment of poor persons afflicted with fever in Ireland : 9 Vic., cap. VI, 24th March, 1846 : an act to make provision, until the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, for the treatment of poor persons afflicted with fever in Ireland. (Dublin : Printed by Alexander Thom, 87, Abbey-street, [1846]), by Great Britain, James Collins, Alexander Thom, and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R (page images at HathiTrust)
An act to amend, and continue until the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, an act for making provision for the treatment of poor persons afflicted with fever in Ireland. (Dublin : Printed by Alexander Thom, 87, Abbey-street, for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, [1847]), by Great Britain, James Collins, Alexander Thom, and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R (page images at HathiTrust)
Anno undecimo Georgii IV Regis. (London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1830), by Great Britain, Andrew Strahan, George Eyre, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R, and Great Britain. Sovereign (1820-1830 : George IV) (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor laws--Ireland. Three reports (London, Printed by W. Clowes and Sons for H.M.S.O., 1838), by George Nicholls and Great Britain Home Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Conference of poor law guardians : held at the Imperial Hotel, Great Malvern, May 7, 1872. (Worcester : J. Knight and Co., the Cross, [1872]) (page images at HathiTrust)
Farm labourers, their friendly societies, and the poor law / (London : W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, and Charing Cross, 1870), by J. Y. Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
In what respects may the administration of the poor law be improved? : a paper read at Bristol, at the request of the Council of the Social Science Association / (Bristol : Published by Thomas Kerslake & Co., Park Street, 1869), by Elisha Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Letter of the Rt. Hon. G.J. Goschen, president of the Poor Law Board : on the relief to the poor in the metropolis. (London : Shaw and Sons, Fetter Lane, publishers of the books and forms of the Poor Law Board, 1869), by G. J. Goschen (page images at HathiTrust)
A letter on pauperism and crime, addressed to the members of the House of Commons / (London ; Oxford ; Cambridge : Rivingtons ..., 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
A letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel, M.P. for the University of Oxford, on the pernicious effects of a variable standard of value, esecially as it regards the condition of the lower orders and the poor laws / (Oxford : Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, London, 1819), by Edward Copleston, contrib. by John Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Local taxation and poor law administration in great cities : a speech delivered in the House of Commons, 22nd June, 1869 / (Westminster : Printed by J.B. Nichols and Sons, 25, Parliament Street, 1869), by William Rathbone (page images at HathiTrust)
Lord Lyttelton's speech on the poor laws in the House of Lords, 14th June 1875. (London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1875), by George William Lyttelton Lyttelton and Great Britain Parliament House of Lords (page images at HathiTrust)
West-midland counties fifth annual Poor Law Conference : held at great malvern, May 4th, 1875. ([s.l. : s.n., 1875]), by Poor Law Conferences (1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fourteenth report with the minutes of evidence, and appendix. ([London?], 1838), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the New Poor Law Amendment Act (page images at HathiTrust)
A handy guide to the duties of overseers of the poor, assistant overseers and collectors of rates. (London, 1921), by A. O. Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Proposed alteration of the Scottish poor laws, and of the administration thereof, as stated by Dr. Alison, in his "Observations on the management of the poor in Scotland". (Edinburgh, W. Whyte, 1840), by David Monypenny (page images at HathiTrust)
Currency inquiry solicited but general declamation without reasoning disregarded. (London : pr. for the author by Lewis, 1842), by Charles Enderby (page images at HathiTrust)
What is to be done for Ireland? / (London : James Ridgway, 1849), by John Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
Dispauperization, (London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876), by J. R. Pretyman (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise of the laws for the relief and settlement of the poor / (New York : Garland Pub., 1978), by Michael Nolan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De la répression de la mendicité et du vagabondage en France sous l'ancien régime, (Paris, L. Larose & L. Tenin, 1906), by Christian Paultre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the expediency of revising the system of administration of the public charities of the commonwealth, December, 1877. (Boston, Rand, Avery, & co., printers to the commonwealth, 1878), by Massachusetts. Commission on revising the system of administration of public charities (page images at HathiTrust)
The English poor, a sketch of their social and economic history. (London, J. Murray, 1889), by Thomas Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
The law of settlement and removal : with a collection of statutes / (London : Butterworth : Shaw & Sons, 1903), by John F. Symonds, Gerard R. Hill, Joshua Scholefield, Gerard R. Hill, and Joshua Scholefield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Cottage economy ... / (London : A. Cobbett, 1838), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor laws of the State of New York containing the first six titles of chapter 20 of the first part of the revised statutes, and such subsequent acts as relate to the support and management of the poor; to which are added suitable forms with notes and explanations. (Albany : Weed, Parsons, and Co., 1853), by New York (State) and Henry S. Randall (page images at HathiTrust)
The better administration of the Poor law, (London, S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1895), by William Chance (page images at HathiTrust)
Über den rechtlichen Schutz des wirthschaftlich Schwächeren in der römischen Kaisergesetzgebung / (Weimar : E. Felber, 1897), by Ivo Pfaff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Labour and wages : chapters reprinted from the Manual of political economy / (London : Macmillan, 1884), by Henry Fawcett (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the committee (appointed Feb. 8th, 1884.) Presented Dec. 22nd, 1884, to the bishop of the diocese, with prefatory remarks by His Lordship. To which is added an appendix containing a digest of Bristol charities, etc. (London : P. S. King, 1885), by Bristol (England). Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Bristol Poor (page images at HathiTrust)
The humanizing of the Poor law. (London, The Fabian society, 1897), by Joseph Francis Oakeshott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Traité théorique et pratique d'assistance publique, (Paris, L. Larose, 1900), by H. Derouin, Fernand Worms, A. Gory, and etc. France. Laws (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A plea for Poor law reform. (London, The Fabian society, 1898?), by Frederick Whelen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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A summary view of the report and evidence, relative to the poor laws, published by order of the House of Commons, with observations & suggestions. By S. W. Nicoll. (York, Printed for W. Alexander, sold also by Darton, Harvey and Co., [etc.], 1818), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on the State of the Poor and of the Poor Laws and S. W. Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust)
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A letter to Sir William Pulteney, bart., representative in Parliament for the borough of Shrewsbury : containing some observations on the Bill for the better support and maintenance of the poor, presented to the House of Commons by the Right Hon. William Pitt / (Shrewsbury : Printed by J. and W. Eddowes, 1797), by Isaac Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
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Knight's guide to the poor law institutions orders, being an annotation of the poor law institutions (nursing) order, 1913, issued by the local government board on the 30th December, 1913 / (London : Knight & Co., 1914), by William George Gillings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Poor law orders : the Relief regulation order, 1911, and the Boarding out order, 1911, with other orders relating to the administration of relief, together with introduction, notes, and explanations, being a supplement to the volume of poor law orders issued in 1907. / (London : P. S. King & son, 1912), by Herbert Jenner-Fust (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die gesetzliche Regelung der aufgaben der öffentlichen armenpflege. (München, Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1912), by Eduard Christoph von Hollander, Kurt Sperling, and Karl Thode (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The minority report of the Poor Law Commission. (London, Printed for the Fabian Society, 1909), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Poor Laws and Relief of Distress (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pauperism and poor laws, (London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852), by Robert Pashley (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor relief in Scotland; an outline of the growth and administration of the poor laws in Scotland, from the middle ages to the present day, (Aberdeen : D. Wyllie & Son, 1923), by Alexander A. Cormack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mistakes of the local government board and of other "Authorities" in poor law administration; being a memorandum laid before the Poor law commission. (Oxford, Parker and Co., 1908), by J. Theodore Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor laws of the state of New York, containing the first six titles of chapter xx of the first part of the Revised statutes, together with all the general and special laws relating to the support and management of the poor in force down to and including the year 1871, to which are added suitable forms with notes and explanations. (Albany, The Argus Company, 1871), by New York (State) (page images at HathiTrust)
The break-up of the Poor law: being part one of the Minority report of the Poor law commission, (London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1909), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, Beatrice Webb, and Sidney Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The historical development of the poor law of Connecticut, (New York, Columbia University Press, The Macmillan Company, agents; London, P.S. King & son, 1905), by Edward Warren Capen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report. : Reprinted from the Parliamentary paper (Cd. 4499) of session 1909. (London : Printed for H.M. Stationery Off. by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1909), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress and Lord George Francis Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
Social wreckage : a review of the laws of England as they affect the poor / (London : Isbister and Company, 1891), by Francis Peek (page images at HathiTrust)
Chalmers on charity; a selection of passages and scenes to illustrate the social teaching and practical work of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. (Westminster, A. Constable and Co., 1900), by Thomas Chalmers and Nevil Masterman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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The settlement laws of Massachusetts in their application to poor relief outside institutions : with citation of some of the leading judicial decisions in the last thirty years and practical suggestions to visitors among the poor / (Boston : G. E. Ellis, 1900, c1899), by Henry Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
The poor law guardian, his powers and duties in the right execution of his office, (London, Shaw & Sons, 1895), by William W. Mackenzie Amulree (page images at HathiTrust)
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Cottage economy... to which is added The poor man's friend; or, A defence of the rights of those who do the work and fight the battles. (New York, J. Doyle, 1833), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
The causes of the present condition of the labouring classes in the south of England. With a few hints as to the manner of permanently bettering it, and generally ameliorating the state of the country at large. (London, Saunders and Benning, 1831), by B. F. Duppa (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of the poor; their rights, duties, and the laws respecting them. In a series of letters. (London : Printed for W. Richardson, 1797), by Thomas Ruggles (page images at HathiTrust)
The state and the doctor, (London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1910), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Armenpolitik Frankreichs während der grossen Revolution und die Weiterentwickelung der französischen Armengesetzgebung bis zur Gegenwart / (Strassburg : K.J. Trübner, 1904), by Rudolf Schwander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Cobbett's poor man's friend; or, A defence of the rights of those who do the work and fight the battles. (London : Printed by W. Cobbett, [1826]), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
An abridgment of cases upon poor law : from 20 Vict. cap. 19, to 26 & 27 Vict. cap. 125, (1857 to 1863) : in continuation of Mr. Archbold's Poor law cases / (London : Shaw and Sons, 1864), by James Paterson, John Frederick Archbold, and Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
The Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission ... (London : Printed for the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law, 1909), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, Beatrice Webb, Henry Russell Wakefield, and National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution (page images at HathiTrust)
Compendium of the Irish poor law : containing the statutes for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland, and the general orders issued by the poor law commissioners to unions in Ireland ... : to which are appended instructional circulars and forms / (Dublin : A. Thom, 1846), by statutes Ireland. Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
Decisions of the Local government board : collected from all sources, and reprinted from the Local government chronicle. (London : Knight & Co., 1904-17), by Great Britain. Local Government Board and William Augustus Casson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The first report of the commissioners for inquiring into the administration and operation of the poor laws in 1834. (London : printed for H.M.S.O., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1894), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners and Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners. Report from His Majesty's commissioners for inquiring into the administration and practical operation of the poor laws (page images at HathiTrust)
The historical development of the poor law of Connecticut. (New York : The Columbia university press, The Macmillan co., agents ; London : P.S. King & son, 1905), by Edward Warren Capen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Observations on the impolicy, abuses, and false interpretation of the poor laws : and on the reports of the two houses of Parliament / (London : [Printed by A. J. Valpy], 1818), by John Holroyd Sheffield (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of J. C. Curwen, esq. : in the House of Commons, on the 21st of February 1817 : on a motion for a committee to take into consideration the poor laws. (London : [Printed by A.J. Valpy], 1817), by J. C. Curwen (page images at HathiTrust)
The laws relating to the poor. (London : Printed by A. Strahan, for J. Butterworth, 1800), by Edmund Bott, Francis Const, statutes Great Britain. Laws, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
Mémoire sur les moyens d'améliorer en France. La condition des Laboureurs, des journaliers, des hommes de peine vivans dans les campagnes, & celle de leurs femmes & de leurs enfans. (Paris, Delalain l'ainé, Librarie, 1789), by Simon Clicquot de Blervache (page images at HathiTrust)
An abridgment of cases upon poor law, from 5 & 6 Vict. to 20 & 21 Vict. (1842 to 1858) (London, Shaw and Sons, 1858), by W. G. Lumley and John Frederick Archbold (page images at HathiTrust)
Le droit des pauvres sur les spectacles, théâtres, bals et concerts, etc. en France et à l'étranger : législation, doctrine et jurisprudence / par Fernand Worms. (Paris : Librairie de la Société du recueil général des lois et des arrêts, 1900), by Fernand Worms (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Économie politique chrétienne, (Paris : Paulin; [etc., etc.], 1834), by Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon (page images at HathiTrust)
How old age pensions began to be, (London : Methuen, [1909]), by F. Herbert Stead (page images at HathiTrust)
Social wreckage; a review of the laws of England as they affect the poor. (London, W. Isbister, 1883), by Francis Peek (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging / (London : Chapman and Hall, 1887), by C. J. Ribton-Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
Charity organisation, (London, S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1892), by Charles Stewart Loch (page images at HathiTrust)
Public relief and private charity / (New York ; London : G. P. Putnam's sons, 1884), by Josephine Shaw Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
Bidrag till svenska fattiglagstifningens historia intill midten af adertonde århundradet / (Upsala : Almqvist & Wiksells, 1893), by Bror Herman Dahlberg (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Armenwesen in 77 deutschen Städten und einigen Landarmenkerbänden. Dargestellt auf Grund der Verhandlungen und statistischen Untersuchungen des Deutschen Vereins für Armenpflege und Wohlthätigkeit. (Dresden, Armenstatistisches Bureau des Deutschen Vereins für Armenpflege und Wohlthätigkeit, 1886), by Victor Böhmert and Deutscher Verein für Armenpflege und Wohltätigkeit (page images at HathiTrust)
The English poor law system, past and present / (London : Knight, 1888), by P. F. Aschrott (page images at HathiTrust)
Compendium of the Irish poor law : and general manual for poor law guardians and their officers : containing the acts for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland and the various other enactments connected therewith ... / (Dublin : A. Thom, 1887), by Ireland and Thomas Aiskew Mooney (page images at HathiTrust)
Danske kirkelove samt udvalg af andre bestemmelser vedrørende kirken, skolen og de fattiges forsørgelse fra reformationen indtil Christian v's danske lov, 1536-1683, (Kjøbenhavn, Selskabet for Danmarks kirkehistorie, i kommission hos G.E.C.Gad, 1883-89), by Denmark, statutes Denmark. Laws, and Selskabet for Danmarks kirkehistorie, ed. by Holger Frederik Rørdam (page images at HathiTrust)
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Das armenwesen in 77 deutschen städten und einigen landarmenverbänden. Dargestellt auf grund der verhandlungen und statistischen untersuchungen des Deutschen vereins für armenpflege und wolhthätigkeit (Dresden, Armenstatistisches Bureau des Deutschen vereins für armenpflege und wohlthätigkeit, 1886-[88]), by Victor Böhmert and Deutscher Verein für Armenpflege und Wohltätigkeit (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor law conferences : proceedings of the central and district poor law conferences. (London : P.S. King & Son,) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The rights of the poor, and Christian almsgiving vindicated, or, The state and character of the poor, and the conduct and duties of the rich, exhibited and illustrated microform / (London : J. Burns, 1841), by S. R. Bosanquet (page images at HathiTrust)
Public relief and private charity. (New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884), by Josephine Shaw Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
Considerations on the state of Ireland : being the substance of an address delivered before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, at the opening of its seventeenth session, on Wednesday, November 18, 1863 : with an appendix, containing a comparison of the English and Irish Poor Laws with respect to the conditions of relief / (Dublin : E. Ponsonby, 1864), by John K. Ingram and Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
Mendicancy in Ireland [electronic resource] : the sixth, seventh, and eighth reports of the Poor-Law Commissioners. ([London] : Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, [1844?]), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
Some considerations on the Scottish poor-law question [electronic resource] : in a letter to a friend / (Edinburgh : W. Blackwood & Sons, 1845), by William Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
Pauperism and the poor laws, or, Our sinking population and rapidly increasing public burdens [electronic resource] : practically considered / (Edinburgh : J. Johnstone, 1849), by James Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
Pauperism and the poor laws, or, Our sinking population and rapidly increasing public burdens [electronic resource] : practically considered / (Edinburgh : Johnstone and Hunter, 1849), by James Begg (page images at HathiTrust)
A plan for the equalization of the poor rates throughout the United Kingdom [electronic resource] : by abolishing the law of settlement and the removal of paupers : also saving annually thousands of pounds to the rate-payers, preventing all parochial litigation and greatly benefiting the condition of the poor / (London : Simpkin, Marshall, 1849), by G. L. Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Rating : principles--practice--procedure. (London : Estates Gazette [etc.], 1910), by Philip Michael Faraday and W. J. Jeeves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The starting point of poor law reform; being articles upon the principles in common and at in the reports of the Poor law commission, with a plea for agreement as to first steps, (London : P. S. King & son, 1910), by John H. Muirhead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ohio laws for the relief of special classes; (Cincinnati, O., 1934), by F. Galeana De Puy, Potito Charrara, and Ohio Department of Public Welfare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Social welfare laws of the forty-eight states / (Seattle, Wash. : Wendell Huston Co., [c1937]), by Wendell Huston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Der Erstattungsanspruch der Armenverbände gegen den Unterstützten und seine unterhaltspflichtigen Angehörigen / (Greifswald : E. Hartmann, 1915), by Matthias Futter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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The principle of the English poor laws illustrated from the evidence given by Scottish Proprietors (before the Corn Committee) on the connexion observed in Scotland between the price of grain and the wages of labour. (London, J. Hatchard, 1815), by John Weyland and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Committee on the Subject of the Corn Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor law records of mid Sussex : 1601-1835 / (East Sussex : Sussex Record Society, 2001), by Ian Nelson and Norma Pilbeam (page images at HathiTrust)
The Poor law report of 1909; a summary explaining the defects of the present system and the principal recommendations of the Commission, so far as relates to England and Wales. (London, Macmillan, 1909), by Helen Dendy Bosanquet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
By what authority? The principles in common and at issue in the reports of the Poor law commission. (London : P.S. King & Son, 1909), by John H. Muirhead (page images at HathiTrust)
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Du paupérisme, ce qu'il était dans l'antiquité, ce qu'il est de nos jours; des remèdes qui lui étaient opposés, de ceux qu'il conviendrait de lui appliquer aujourd'hui. Suivi d'une analyse de la législation ancienne et moderne sur ce sujet, avec l'exposition des opinions des économistes et des publicistes qui ont spécialement traité de cette matière. (Paris, Guillaumin, 1842), by C. G. de Chamborant (page images at HathiTrust)
Public relief and private charity, (New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1884), by Josephine Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
Introductory lectures on political economy, delivered at Oxford, in Easter term, MDCCCXXXL (London, J. W. Parker and son, 1847), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise upon the poor laws. (London, J. Murray, 1818), by Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (page images at HathiTrust)
The state of the poor; a history of the labouring classes in England, with parochial reports, (New York, E.P. Dutton & company, 1929), by Frederick Morton Eden, ed. by A. G. L. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
The charities of San Francisco: a directory of the benevolent and correctional agencies, together with a digest of those laws most directly affecting their work. (San Francisco, Book room print, 1894), by Charles Kelley Jenness and Stanford University. Dept. of economics and social science (page images at HathiTrust)
Report from His Majesty's commissioners for inquiring into the administration and practical operation of the poor laws / ([London : s.n.], 1834), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners, William Sturges Bourne, and C. J. London (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor law aspects of national health insurance / ([Newark, N.J. : Prudential press, 1920]), by Frederick L. Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
Practice of the Scottish Poor Law / (Edinburgh : W. Green, 1907), by George A. Mackay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of the Commission to study the pauper laws as provided by Special act no. 522 of the General assembly, January, 1935. (Hartford, Conn., The State, 1937), by Connecticut. Commission to study pauper laws, Charles Garabed Chakerian, and Ward Everett Duffy (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the English poor law, in connexion with the legislation and other circumstances affecting the condition of the people. (London, J. Murray [etc.], 1854), by George Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor-laws of Massachusetts and New York, with appendices containing the United States immigration and contract-labor laws; by John Cummings. (New York, Pub. for the American economic association, by Macmillan & company; [etc., etc.], 1895), by John Cummings (page images at HathiTrust)
Report from the Select committee on poor removal; together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix. ([London, 1879]), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select committee on poor removal (page images at HathiTrust)
Protest against the spirit and practice of modern legislation, as exhibited in the new vagrant act. (London : Harvey and Darton, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
Vagrancy; being a review of the Report of the Departmental committee on vagrancy (1906), with answers to certain criticisms, (London, P. S. King and son, 1906), by William Chance (page images at HathiTrust)
The path of social progress : a discussion of old and new ideas in social reform / (Edinburgh : T. Nelson and Sons, 1912), by Helen S Kerr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The history of the poor; their rights, duties, and the laws respecting them. In a series of letters. (London, Printed for J. Deighton, 1793-94), by Thomas Ruggles (page images at HathiTrust)
The parish and the union; (London, C. Knight and co., 1837), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of commons. Select committee on new poor law amendment act (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the Scotch poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people. (London, J. Murray, 1856), by George Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
The poor law, comprising the whole of the law of settlement, and all the authorities upon the subject of the poor law generally, brought down to Hilary term, 1856, with forms. (London, Shaw, 1856), by John Frederick Archbold (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor law inquiry (Scotland) appendix. (Edinburgh : Murray and Gibb, George Street, for her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1844), by Poor Law Inquiry Commission for Scotland (page images at HathiTrust)
The strike of a sex : a novel / (London : William Reeves, [189-?]), by George Noyes Miller, Gertrude. History of the poor law Green, J. Emancipation of women Gibson, and Émile Zola (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rating: principles - practice - procedure, (London : Estates Gazette, 1896), by Philip Michael Faraday and Stanley A. Latham (page images at HathiTrust)
The English poor in the eighteenth century; a study in social and administrative history, (London, G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1926), by Dorothy Marshall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Decisions of the Court of King's Bench, upon settlement-cases : from the death of Lord Raymond, in March 1732, to June 1776, inclusive : during which time Lord Hardwicke, Sir William Lee, Sir Dudley Ryder, and Lord Mansfield, presided in that court : to which are added two tables, one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters / (London : E. Brooke, 1790), by Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, William Murray Mansfield, Dudley Ryder, William Lee, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, and James Burrow (page images at HathiTrust)
The public organisation of the labour market : being part two of the Minority report of the Poor Law Commission. (London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1909), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, Beatrice Webb, and Sidney Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The prevention of destitution: (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1911), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
English poor law policy. (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1913), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
Laws relating to the poor, from the forty-third of Queen Elizabeth to the third of King George II, [1601-1730] : with cases adjudged in the Court of the King's Bench, upon the several clauses of them. In a method entirely new / ([London] In the Savoy : Printed by H. Lintot, law-printer to the King, for J. Worrall, 1751), by Robert Foley, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
Sessions cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, chiefly touching settlements, from the latter end of Queen Anne's reign to the present time : with two tables, the one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters therein contained ([London] In the Savoy : Printed by C. Lintot for D. Browne and J. Shuckburgh, 1760), by Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
New poor law or no poor law : being a description of the majority and minority reports of the Poor Law Commission / (London : Dent, 1909), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
The poor removal law (8 & 9 Vict., C 117) An alien act against the Irish. Remarks on the report and evidence of the House of Commons on poor removals. (Chester, Thomas Pullan, 1855), by John Trevor (page images at HathiTrust)
Extracts from the information received by His Majesty's commissioners, as to the administration and operation of the poor-laws. Published by authority. (London : B. Fellowes, 1833), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
The laws of the Hebrews : relating to the poor and the stranger, from the "Mischna-Hathora" of the Rabbi Maimonides / (London : P. Richardson, 1840), by Moses Maimonides and James Watts Peppercorne (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor law ([Lansing?]), by Michigan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A briefe declaration for what manner of speciall nusance concerning private dwelling houses, a man may have his remedy by assise, or other action as the case requires. Vnfolded in the arguments, and opinions of foure famous sages of the common law; together with the power, and extent of customes in cities, townes, and corporations, concerning the same: together with the determination of the law, concerning the commodity, and use of houses, and their appurtenances. Whereunto is added, the iustices of assise their opinion, concerning statute law for parishes; and the power of iustices of peace, churchwardens, and constables: and to know what they are to do concerning bastards borne in their parishes, reliefe of the poore, and providing for poore children, what remedy for the same (London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop, neere Furnivals-inne gate in Holbourne, 1639), by John Manwood, Christopher Wray, Edmund Plowden, and Robert Monson (page images at HathiTrust)
Anno regni Georgii II. regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo sexto. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the first day of December, anno Dom. 1741, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord, George the Second ... and from thence continued by several prorogations to the sixteenth day of November, 1742, being the second session of this present Parliament (London, Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, printers to the King, 1742[-43]), by Great Britain and William Mure (page images at HathiTrust)
Anno regni Georgii II. regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo septimo : at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the first day of December, anno Dom. 1741, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Second ... : and from thence continued by several prorogations to the first day of December, 1743, being the third session of this present Parliament (London : Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, printers to the King, 1743[-44]), by Great Britain and William Mure (page images at HathiTrust)
A view of ancient laws against immorality and profaneness; under the following heads; lewdness; profane swearing, cursing and blasphemy; perjury; prophanation of days devoted to religion; contempt or neglect of divine service; drunkenness; gaming; idleness, vagrancy, and begging; stage-plays and players; and duelling. Collected from the Jewish, Roman, Greek, Gothic, Lombard, and other laws, down to the middle of the eleventh century. (Cambridge, C. Crownfield [etc.], 1729), by John Disney (page images at HathiTrust)
The act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the poor in England and Wales. (London : Fellowes, 1836), by John Tidd Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
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The state of the poor; or, An history of the labouring classes in England, from the conquest to the present period; in which are particularly considered, their domestic economy, with respect to diet, dress, fuel, and habitation; and the various plans which, from time to time, have been proposed, and adopted, for the relief of the poor: together with parochial reports relative to the administration of work-houses, and houses of industry; the state of friendly societies; and other public institutions ... (London, Printed by J. Davis, for B. & J. White [etc.], 1797), by Frederick Morton Eden, Benjamin White, J. Book producer White, and J. Book producer Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Summary of state laws relating to the dependent classes, 1913. (Washington : Govt. print. off, 1914), by United States Bureau of the Census, Joseph A. Hill, and Edwin Munsell Bliss (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the English poor law : in connection with the legislation and other circumstances affecting the condition of the people / (London : King & Son, 1904), by George Nicholls, Thomas MacKay, and H. G. Willink (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
General introduction to Statistical account of Upper Canada : compiled with a view to a grand system of emigration, in connexion with a reform of the poor laws /, by Robert Gourlay and Robert Index to (work): Gourlay (page images at HathiTrust)
A voice for Ireland. The famine in the land. What has been done and what is to be done ... (Dublin, J. McGlashan, 1847), by Isaac Butt (page images at HathiTrust)
The prevention of destitution: (London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and co., 1920), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern methods of charity; an account of the systems of relief, public and private, in the principal countries having modern methods, (New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1904), by Charles Richmond Henderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Foreign solutions of poor law problems, (London, H. Marshall & son, [1908]), by Edith Sellers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The courts and the poor laws in New York state, 1784-1929 ... (Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press, [1943]), by Martha Branscombe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Government and the needy; a study of public assistance in New Jersey, (Princeton, Princeton University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941), by Paul Tutt Stafford (page images at HathiTrust)
History of poor relief legislation in Pennsylvania, 1682-1913, (Cleona, Pa., Holzapfel publishing company, [c1913]), by William Clinton Heffner (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the Poor law commissioners to the most noble the Marquis of Normanby, (London, Printed by W. Clowes and sons, 1840), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners and John George Shaw-Lefevre (page images at HathiTrust)
Lancashire's lessons; or, The need of a settled policy in times of exceptional distress. A letter addressed to the Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M. P., president of the Poor law board. (London, Trübner and co., 1864), by W. T. McCullagh Torrens and Charles Pelham Villiers (page images at HathiTrust)
Charity organisation, (London, S. Sonnenschein & co., 1890), by Charles Stewart Loch (page images at HathiTrust)
The historical development of the poor law in Connecticut ... (New York, 1905), by Edward Warren Capen (page images at HathiTrust)
The consolidated and other orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, and of the Poor Law Board. With introd., explanatory notes, and index, (London, Shaw, 1859), by Great Britain. Poor Law Board, John Frederick Archbold, and Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
Evils of the state of Ireland : their causes, and their remedy, a poor law / (London : J. Hatchard, [183-]), by John Revans (page images at HathiTrust)
The church, the state, and the poor: a series of historical sketches. (London : R. Scott, 1914), by W. Edward Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)
The principles of the law of rating of hereditaments in the occupation of companies /, by J. H. Balfour Browne and D. Norman M'Naughton (page images at HathiTrust)
The historical development of the Poor law of Connecticut. (New York : AMS Press, [1968]), by Edward Warren Capen (page images at HathiTrust)
Social welfare laws of the forty-eight states / (Des Moines, Iowa : Wendel Huston Company, ©1930), by Wendell Huston (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor Law Commission: What it proposes : full summary of both reports... / (London : The Daily News, 1909), by C. B. Hawkins and J. S. Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Der Pauperism in England in legislativen, administrativen und statistischen Beziehungen / (Regensburg : G. J. Manz, 1845), by C. Th. Kleinschrod (page images at HathiTrust)
Économie politique chrétienne, (Bruxelles, Meline, Cans et compagnie, 1837), by Jean-Paul-Alban Villeneuve-Bargemon (page images at HathiTrust)
Extracts from the information received by His Majesty's commissioners, (London, Printed by W. Clowes and sons, 1837), by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
Die neue Armengesetzgebung Englands und Irlands in ihrem zehnjährigen Vollzuge, als Fortsetzung des "Pauperism in England 1845" nebst allgemeiner Betrachtung über die Arbeiterfrage und Massenverarmung. (Augsburg, 1849), by C. Th. Kleinschrod (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Pauperism in England. : Zweite Fortsetzung mit mehreren Tabellen und einem Anhange: "Ueber dei Wohnungen der Armen- und Arbeiterklassen in ihrem Einflusse auf die physischen, socialen und sittlichen Zustände derselben." (Augsburg, 1853), by C. Th. Kleinschrod (page images at HathiTrust)
The poor law, (London< Macmillan and co., 1881), by T. W. Fowle (page images at HathiTrust)
The vagrancy problem. The case for measures of restraint for tramps, loafers, and unemployables: (London, P. S. King & son, 1910), by William Harbutt Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Social wreckage : a review of the laws of England as they affect the poor / (London : Wm. Isbister, 1883), by Francis Peek (page images at HathiTrust)
Public relief of the poor. Six lectures, (London, J. Murray, 1901), by Thomas Mackay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The work and play of a government inspector, (Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood, 1909), by Herbert Preston-Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History of poor relief legislation in Iowa, (Iowa City, Iowa, State historical society of Iowa, 1914), by John Lewis Gillin and State Historical Society of Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
The early history of English poor relief / (Cambridge : University Press, 1900), by E. M. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people. (London, J. Murray [etc.], 1856), by George Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise on the valuation of property for the poor's rate; showing the method of rating lands, buildings, tithes, mines, woods, navigable rivers and canals, and personal property; with an abstract of the poor laws relating to rates and appeals. (London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834), by J. S. Bayldon (page images at HathiTrust)
Grants in aid: a criticism and a proposal, (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co., 1920), by Sidney Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Minority report of the Poor law commission. (London : Printed for the National committee to promote the break-up of the Poor law, 1909), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, Beatrice Webb, Henry Russell Wakefield, and National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Administrative reform and the Local Government Board / (London : P. S. King, 1906), by J. Theodore Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise on the laws of the state of New York relating to the poor, insane, idiots and habitual drunkards, with an appendix of forms and comprehensive digest. (Rochester, N.Y., Williamson & Higbie, 1887), by Clark D. Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)
Clearinghouse review. (Washington, D.C. : National Clearinghouse for Legal Services,), by National Institute for Education in Law and Poverty (U.S.) and National Clearinghouse for Legal Services (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cobbett's Manchester lectures, in support of his fourteen reform propositions : which lectures were delivered in the Minor Theatre, in that town, on the six last days of the year 1831 : to which is subjoined a letter to Mr. O'Connell, on his speech, made in Dublin, on the 4th of January, 1832, against the proposition for the establishing of poor-laws in Ireland. (London : Published at no. 11, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, 1832), by William Cobbett and Mr O'Connell (page images at HathiTrust)
The Poor law report of 1909; a summary explaining the defects of the present system and the principal recommendations of the Commission, so far as related to England and Wales. (London, Macmillan & co., limited, 1911), by Helen Dendy Bosanquet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Social administration including the poor laws, (London, New York [etc.] Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1922), by John Joseph Clarke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A letter to Lord Howick : on a legal provision for the Irish poor, commutation of tithes, and a provision for the Irish Roman Catholic clergy / (London : J. Murray, 1831), by Nassau William Senior (page images at HathiTrust)
The poor law and local government magazine. (Glasgow, N. Adshead [etc.]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A history of the English poor law, in connection with the state of the country and the condition of the people, (London, P. S. King & son; New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1898-99), by George Nichols and Thomas Mackay, ed. by Henry George Willink (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[Reports and minutes of evidence] (London : Printed for H.M. Stationery Office, by Wyman and sons, limited, 1909-1910), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, Norah B Roberts, Marion Phillips, C Parsons, G Harlock, John Christian Pringle, Cyril Jackson, Mary Longman, Ethel Mary Nucella Williams, Thomas Jones, Constance Williams, Rose Elizabeth Squire, Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, H Toynbee, Andrew C Kay, and George Francis Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Grants in aid: a criticism and a proposal, (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Co., 1911), by Sidney Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The history of local rates in England; five lectures, (London, New York, Longmans, Green, 1896), by Edwin Cannan (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor relief laws; (Chicago, Ill., Public administration service, 1934), by American Public Welfare Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The prevention of destitution, (London, New York, Longmans, Green, 19l6), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Vagrancy Problem.: The Case for Measures of Restraint for Tramps, Loafers, and Unemployables: With a Study of Continental Detention Colonies and Labour Houses, by William Harbutt Dawson (Gutenberg ebook)
The poor mans friend, or A narrative of what progresse many worthy citi- [sic] of London have made in that godly work of providing for the poor With an Ordinance of Parliament for the better carrying on of the work. Published for the information and encouragement of those, both in city and countrey, that wish well to so pious a work. (London : printed by A.M. for Tho. Underhill at the Bible in Woodstreet, 1649. [i.e. 1650]), by Rice Bush and England and Wales. Parliament. Proceedings. 1647-12-17 (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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