During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries many parishes
provided 'non-resident' relief to their poor living elsewhere. For Kirkby
Lonsdale in Westmorland and a number of Essex parishes, e.g. Braintree and
St Botolph, Colchester, there are many surviving letters from ex-patriot
paupers pleading for/demanding relief.
How widespread are such letters - are there examples elsewhere?
Thanks,
Peter Park,
Walton on Thames , Surrey.
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