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The Early History of English Poor Relief

Note 140 — Chapter VI

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D'Ewes' Journals, p. 551. Sir Francis Bacon "had perused the Preambles of former statutes, and by them did see the inconvenience of this matter, being then scarce out of the shell, to be now full ripened."

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