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The Early History of English Poor Relief

Note 568 — Chapter XI

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Haberdashers' Company Char. Com. Rep. X. p. 230. Mercers' Company Char. Com. Rep. VI., pp. 285, 291, 307.

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David Appowell, 1508. £100 to be lent to two young men for seven years in consideration of four cart-loads of coal every year.

Alice Blundell, 1570. £100 to be lent to two young men who were to give 1s. 1d. every week to thirteen poor folk of the parish of St Lawrence Jewry.

Richard Fishborne, 1625. £1000 to be lent to five young men free of the Company £200 each for five years gratis with three good securities.

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