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Hace 5 días · Thomas Frierston by will of 1650 charged a close and dovehouse with paying £1 yearly for the poor on St. Thomas's day. (fn. 7) In 1711 Jacob Webb gave a dovehouse yielding 10 s. a year to support apprenticeships. (fn. 8) When Burwell fen was divided in 1678-9 the parish was allotted for its poor, for the common rights of its town houses, lots ...
Hace 1 día · Sega 32X. Unveiled by Sega at June 1994's Consumer Electronics Show, the 32X was later described as the "poor man's entry into 'next generation' games." The product was originally conceived as an entirely new console by Sega Enterprises and positioned as an inexpensive alternative for gamers into the 32-bit era, but at the suggestion of Sega of America research and development head Joe Miller ...
Hace 5 días · Presented in the guise of an economic treatise, the essay proposes that the country ameliorate poverty in Ireland by butchering the children of the Irish poor and selling them as food to wealthy English landlords. Swift’s proposal is a savage comment on England’s legal and economic exploitation of Ireland. The essay is a masterpiece of satire, with a blend of rational deliberation and ...
Hace 5 días · After its land was sold in the 1930s for the airport, the capital received, £3,100 of 3½ per cent stock, was in 1940 divided, apart from £40 assigned to maintain the church's annual £1, equally between the educational and eleemosynary charities distinguished since 1907. (fn. 16) In the 1950s and 1960s Lady Joan Jermy's poor charity, worth ...
Hace 3 días · The almshouse charity had an income of under £250 c. 1970, when it was disbursed in pensions of £25, and was included in Paddington Welfare Charities (q.v.) in 1977. Frances King, by will dated 1845, left £200 towards coal for the inmates of the almshouses. Dividends of £4 8 s. from £160 2 s. 2 d. stock were added to the income of the ...
Hace 4 días · Charities for the poor. Edmund Gledhill, by will dated 1607, left 20 s. to be lent each year to four poor men. The money was lost in 1760 when it was used to build a gallery in the church. (fn. 84) Thomas Kent, by will proved 1633, left 1 s. a year, charged on land in Kidlington, to be distributed to six poor widows on New Year's day.
Hace 4 días · Social Life, 1835–1900. In 1859 the poor-law guardians proposed to build new offices in Museum Street. The proposal was immediately the subject of protests from the members of the Yorkshire Club, the corporation, and the physicians and surgeons of the County Hospital. The members of the club protested that the offices would be close to the ...
