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Brotherton Collection10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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almshouses12
poor laws7
hospitals2
christianity1
credit1
debts, public1
linen1
poor1
public welfare1
textile fabrics1

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Winchester (England)1

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Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)4
Saunders, George L2
Sheffield (England)2
Sheffield (England). Board of Guardians2
Cary, John (1720)1
Catholic Church. Diocese of Winchester (England)1
Church of England. Diocese of Winchester1
Dakyn, John1
Dakyn, John (1558)1
Firth'S Almshouses (Sheffield, England)1

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A discourse on trade : and other matters relative to it : viz. of trade in general : of the trade of England : of husbandry, feeding, tillage, corn, fruit, fish, minerals, trees, manufactures, sheep-wool, hemp and flax...[etc.]

Cary, John (1720)

1745

Half title page, p. [147]: An account of the proceedings of the corporation of Bristol, in execution of the act of parliament for the better employing and maintaining the poor of that city. Separate...

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Statuta eleemosynariae sive Hospitalis, Sancti Johannis Baptistae, in Kirkby-Ravenswath. Conditae per Johannem Dakyn... 1556

Dakyn, John (1558); Hospital of St. John Baptist (Kirkby Ravensworth, England)

1786

Indexed in: ESTC

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The oppression of the poor the destruction of nations : addressed to all classes in Sheffield

Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)

[1848]

Letters to the editor of the Sheffield Times, dated March and April, 1848.

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A discourse touching provision for the poor

Hale, Matthew (1609-1676)

1683

First edition, according to Wing; but Kress treats the 8vo edition of the same year as earlier.

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Proposals for building in every county a working-alms-house or hospital; as the best expedient to perfect the trade and manufactory of linnen-cloth

Haines, Richard (1633-1685)

1677

Proposals signed (¹B3r): R.H., i.e. Richard Haines. Text in two parts: Proposals [etc.] (¹A2r-¹B3v); Postscript, with separate pagination (²A1r-²B4v). ¹B4 is a blank leaf.

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