Treatment of Poverty in Cambridgeshire, 1597-1834 (Paperback)

1. Introductory; 2. Poor relief in Cambridge during the first part of the seventeenth century; 3. Poor relief in Wisbech during the first part of the seventeenth century; 4. Poor Law administration in the rural areas during the first part of the seventeenth century; 5. Wage problems; 6. Housing problems and pauper labour in Cambridgeshire in the early eighteenth century; 7. The workhouse movement in the towns of Cambridge and Royston, 1723?1785; 8. The workhouse movement in rural Cambridgeshire, 1723?1785; 9. The urban workhouses of Cambridgeshire, 1785?1834; 10. The rural workhouses of Cambridgeshire, 1785?1834; 11. Settlement and removal, 1660?1834; 12. Pauper apprenticeship; 13. Bastardy; 14. Relief outside the workhouse, 1660?1782; 15. Relief outside the workhouse, 1782?1834; 16. Constitutional structure and social policy; 17. Conclusion; Appendix; Indexes.