Paupers and Pauperism 1780-1834 Acts

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1601 - Elizabethan Poor Law
Parishes became the administrative unit for raising money for poor relief and distributing such relief
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1662 - Settlement Act
Individuals could be returned to the parish of their birth in order to receive relief
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1697 - Settlement Act
Strangers could be denied entry to a parish unless they could produce a settlement certificate stating their parish of origin would take them back if they needed relief
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1782 - Gilbert's Act
Parishes could combine to build a workhouse and so share the cost of poor relief
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1815 - Corn Laws
Would not allow the import of foreign corn until the price of British corn reached 80 shillings a quarter (To try and keep the price of corn and bread steady)
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1817 - Habeas Corpus suspended
Habeas Corpus was introduced in 1679 to prevent people from being imprisoned in secret. Its suspension meant people could be imprisoned without trial for an indefinite period
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Six Acts 1819
Prohibited meetings of more than 50 people, increased stamp duties on newspapers, made the publication of blasphemous material a transportable offence, forbade military training by civilians, gave magistrates power to search private houses for arms.
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1819 - Sturges-Bourne Acts
Enable distinction to be made between the 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor
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1832 - Royal Commission of Enquiry into the Operation of the Poor Laws set up
The Whig Government came into power in 1831 and the escalating costs of the poor laws lead the pushed the government to investigate the poor laws so they could be simplify the existing poor laws.
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Individuals could be returned to the parish of their birth in order to receive relief

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1662 - Settlement Act

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Strangers could be denied entry to a parish unless they could produce a settlement certificate stating their parish of origin would take them back if they needed relief

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Parishes could combine to build a workhouse and so share the cost of poor relief

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Would not allow the import of foreign corn until the price of British corn reached 80 shillings a quarter (To try and keep the price of corn and bread steady)

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