Letters on the condition of the poor : addressed to Alexander Henry, Esq., containing a vindication of poor laws and benevolent societies, proofs of the injustice of the general censure of the poor for extravagance, dissipation, etc., instances of intense suffering in Philadelphia ... /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29122.

A collection of all the statutes in force respecting the relief and regulation of the poor, with notes and references

Mode of access: Internet.

Official papers, printed for the Common Council of the City of Boston : comprising the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of Massachusetts, with the amendments ; City and police acts, acts relating to the Board of Health, overseers of the poor, and firewards, together with an act providing for the assessment of taxes.

Mode of access: Internet.

Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community: containing among other important particulars, an account of the institution for the education of one thousand poor children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the new system of education on which it is conducted.

Shoemaker 12885.

Infant education : or, practical remarks on the importance of educating the infant poor, from the age of eighteen months to seven years, containing hints for developing the moral and intellectual powers of children of all classes. / by S. Wilderspin.

Mode of access: Internet.

Infant education; or remarks on the importance of educating the infant poor, from the age of eighteen months to seven years. With an account of the Spitalfields' Infant School, and the system of instruction there adopted. To which is added, the latest improvements, and a list of schools already established, in England.

Later editions have title: The infant system.

Thirteen sermons : on I. Hypocrisy and cruelty--II. Drunkenness--III. Bribery--IV. The rights of the poor--V. Unjust judges--VI. The sluggard--VII. Murder--VIII. Gaming--IX. Public Robbery--X. The unnatural mother--XI. Forbidding marriage--XII. Parsons and tithes--XIII. Good Friday : to which is added An address to the working people, on the new Dead body bill /

Mode of access: Internet.

The adventures of poor puss /

Pt.2 has caption: The history of Tib, or, The adventures of poor puss, with an account of her death.

On the improvement of poor soils : read in the Holderness Agricultural Society, June 6, 1796, in answer to the following question; "What is the best method of cultivating and improving poor soils, where lime and manure cannot be had?"

Mode of access: Internet.

The farmer's letters to the people of England : containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great importance, particularly the exportation of corn, the balance of agriculture and manufactures, the present state of husbandry, the circumstances attending large and small farms, the present state of the poor, the price of provisions, the proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., the importance of timber and planting, emigrations to the colonies, the means of promoting the agriculture and population of Great Britain, &c. &c. : to which are added, Sylvæ, or, Occasional tracts on husbandry and rural œconomics ... : in two volumes.

Edition statement preceedes the words: in two volumes.

The beauties of Poor Richard's almanack for the year 1760; being short essays in prose and verse, interspersed with moral hints, wise sayings and entertaining remarks.

Mode of access: Internet.

A legal argument shewing that tithes are the property of the public and of the poor.

Mode of access: Internet.

Remarks on the manner in which tithe should be assessed to the poor's rate, under the existing law, with a protest against the change which will be produced in that law, by a bill introduced into the House of commons by Mr. Shaw Lefevre.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 30456.

REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE POOR LAWS, 1819.

Mode of access: Internet.

A popular dictionary of parochial law & taxation : and of the duties of parish offficers alphabetically arranged : comprising assessed taxes; poor and church rares; highway rates;... and generally all information likely to be serviceable to parochial authorities or sought for by parishioners and rate-payers /

Mode of access: Internet.