Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 210 Work-houses. 178 THE AGE OF WALFOLE. [1714 This passage enables us to understand the open war againstcottages as nests of beggars brats (Arthur Young), the division of the whole country into belligerent districts, and the worst grievance of the poor, the impossibility of gettinghabitations (Eden). In some few places, no doubt, these lawsmust have been practically suspended, or else the growth of thegreat
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 210 Work-houses. 178 THE AGE OF WALFOLE. [1714 This passage enables us to understand the open war againstcottages as nests of beggars brats (Arthur Young), the division of the whole country into belligerent districts, and the worst grievance of the poor, the impossibility of gettinghabitations (Eden). In some few places, no doubt, these lawsmust have been practically suspended, or else the growth of thegreat towns would be inexplicable. But wdiat could be thegeneral effect of a harsh law entrusted to the hands of some20,000 annually appointed unpaid overseers { It might well betrue, as Adam Smith declared, that no poor man could reachforty years without suffering grievous oppression under this lawat sonie time or other. The legislature acknowledged there wereabuses when, under George II., it passed Acts to force overseersto render yearly accounts, to prevent their giving orders forrelief in kind to be paid at specified shops, to control their listsof permanent cases, and to make them
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