Making the most of opportunity

King, Steven A.

doi:10.7765/9781526137869.00014

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“…This might suggest that there was a difference between the culture of poverty, sustaining a cycle of poverty across generations, and the culture of makeshifts; a contrast between the 'first poor' who were caught in grinding whole-life poverty, and the 'second poor' who only experienced the odd incident. 73…”

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Pre-industrial ‘charity land’ and the dynamics of rural poverty in south-west England, 1656–1739: a case study

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2023

Rural History

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Post-enclosure charity lands in the period before the establishment of the charity commission in 1818 pose some fundamental questions. The amount and types of payment that recipients received, how they shifted over the period, and how the spectrum of relief adjusted to the massive macro-level changes – particularly the improvement in poor labourers’ standards of living that occurred between c.1660 and c.1760 – are all of interest. By focusing on a dataset derived from an account book for a charity in Mere (Wiltshire) between 1656 and 1739, this paper reveals how the parish authorities coped with the developing economic polarities in rural society and made changes over time in the size and significance of the doles made from the funds arising from the charity lands, indicating the inextricably mixed nature of welfare – the balance between the different financial resources available both from formal relief and parish charities – in this period.

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Section: Dynamics Of Poor Reliefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pre-industrial ‘charity land’ and the dynamics of rural poverty in south-west England, 1656–1739: a case study

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2023

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Making the most of opportunity

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Pre-industrial ‘charity land’ and the dynamics of rural poverty in south-west England, 1656–1739: a case study

Pre-industrial ‘charity land’ and the dynamics of rural poverty in south-west England, 1656–1739: a case study

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