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On the Parish? - The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England c.1550-1750 (Hardcover, New)
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On the Parish? - The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England c.1550-1750 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Social History
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On the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over
the allocation of poor relief in the rural communities of
sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. It
analyses the relationships between the enduring systems of informal
support through which the labouring poor made attempts to survive
for themselves; the expanding range of endowed charity encouraged
by the late sixteenth century statutes for charitable uses; and the
developing system of parish relief co-ordinated under the
Elizabethan poor laws. Based on exhaustive research in the archives
of the trustees who administered endowments, of the overseers of
the poor who assessed rates and distributed pensions, of the
magistrates who audited and co-ordinated relief and of the royal
judges who played such an important role in interpreting the
Elizabethan statutes, the book reconstructs the hierarchy of
provision of relief as it was experienced among the poor
themselves. It argues that receipt of a parish pension was only the
final (and by no means the inevitable) stage in a protracted
process of negotiation between prospective pensioners (or
'collectioners', as they came to be called) and parish officers.
This running theme is itself reflected in a series of chapters
whose sequence seeks to mirror the experience of indigence, moving
gradually (and by stages) from the networks of care provided by kin
and neighbours into the bureaucracy of the parish relief system,
emphasising in particular the importance of labour discipline in
the thinking of parish officers. By illuminating the workings of a
relief system in which notions of entitlement were both
under-developed and contested, On the Parish? provides historical
perspective for contemporary debates about the rights and
obligations of the poor in a society where the dismantling of the
welfare state implies that there is, once again, no right to relief
from cradle to grave.
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