The Law and the Poor

Name: The Law and the Poor
Author: Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

Law -- England; Poor -- England; Poor laws -- England; Working class -- England

xiii  7     Coke's "Institutes." I. "To the Reader."


  CHAPTER I

  1     3     Job xiii. 5.

  4     20    "The Compleat Constable. Directing all Constables,
              Headboroughs, Tithing men, Churchwardens, Overseers of the
              Poor, Surveyors of the Highways and Scavengers in the Duty
              of their several Offices, according to the Power allowed
              them by the Laws and the Statutes." 3rd edition. London.
              Printed for Tho. Bever at the Hand and Star, near Temple
              Bar. 1708.

  8     16    "Shakespeare's Europe. Unpublished chapters of Fynes
              Moryson's Itinerary, being a survey of the condition of
              Europe at the end of the sixteenth century. 1903." At p. 67.

  9     24    Smollett. "Roderick Random." Chap. XXIII.

  12    6     The Trial of Richard Weston at the Guildhall of London for
              the Murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 19th October, 13 James
              1st, A.D. 1615. Howell's "State Trials," II., 914.

  13    21    Boswell's "Life of Johnson." Edited by Birkbeck Hill. II.
              130.

  14    29    Boswell's "Life of Johnson." IV. 188.

  17    8     _Manchester Guardian_, Saturday, January 24th, 1824.


  CHAPTER II

  22    6     2 Kings iv. 1--7.

  28    6     Grote's "History of Greece." Part II., c. 11.

  32    20    Hunter's "Roman Law." 3rd edition. P. 18.

  34    7     Fynes Moryson. "Shakespeare's Europe."


  CHAPTER III

              IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.--The main authorities for the history
              of imprisonment for debt are the reports of the three
              commissions.

              1840. Report of Commission on the Present State of the Laws
              respecting Bankrupts and Insolvent Debtors.

              1893. Report from the Select Committee on the Debtors Act
              with Minutes of Evidence.

              1909. Report on Select Committee on Debtors (Imprisonment)
              with Minutes of Evidence.

              The Hansard Reports of the debates over the Bills of 1837,
              1844, and 1869, contain many clear statements of the
              argument for, and against, abolition.

  37    17    "The Law of Executions, to which are added the History and
              Practice of the Court of King's Bench." By the late Lord
              Chief Baron Gilbert.

  42    7     Smollett. "Roderick Random." Chap. LXI.

  43    1     For the story of the Clerkenwell Spinster and the Debtor,
              see Sir Walter Besant's "London in the Eighteenth Century,"
              Chap. V., "Debtors' Prisons," at p. 562. This volume
              contains excellent accounts of the law and the poor in the
              eighteenth century.

  45    8     December 5th, 1837. Lord Cottenham introduced Bill to
              abolish arrest on mesne process. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110.

  45    30    Thackeray. "The Virginians." Vol. I. Chap. XLV.

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