Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Preface
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: POOR RELIEF IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE BEFORE 1597
- CHAPTER II POOR RELIEF IN CAMBRIDGE DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER III POOR RELIEF IN WISBECH DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER IV POOR LAW ADMINISTRATION IN THE RURAL AREAS DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER V WAGE PROBLEMS. THE PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR. FIRST PHASE OF THE MOVEMENT
- CHAPTER VI HOUSING PROBLEMS AND PAUPER LABOUR IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. THE ISLE OF ELY AND THE STATUTE OF 1723
- CHAPTER VII THE WORKHOUSE MOVEMENT IN THE TOWNS OF CAMBRIDGE AND ROYSTON, 1723–1785
- CHAPTER VIII THE WORKHOUSE MOVEMENT IN RURAL CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 1723–1785
- CHAPTER IX THE URBAN WORKHOUSES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 1785–1834
- CHAPTER X THE RURAL WORKHOUSES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 1785–1834. PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS OF 1804 AND 1834
- CHAPTER XI SETTLEMENT AND REMOVAL, 1660–1834
- CHAPTER XII PAUPER APPRENTICESHIP
- CHAPTER XIII BASTARDY
- CHAPTER XIV RELIEF OUTSIDE THE WORKHOUSE, 1660–1782
- CHAPTER XV RELIEF OUTSIDE THE WORKHOUSE, 1782–1834
- CHAPTER XVI CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL POLICY
- CHAPTER XVII CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX
- MS. Sources and Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
- Index of Special Subjects
- Plate section
CHAPTER XVI - CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL POLICY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Preface
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY: POOR RELIEF IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE BEFORE 1597
- CHAPTER II POOR RELIEF IN CAMBRIDGE DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER III POOR RELIEF IN WISBECH DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER IV POOR LAW ADMINISTRATION IN THE RURAL AREAS DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER V WAGE PROBLEMS. THE PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR. FIRST PHASE OF THE MOVEMENT
- CHAPTER VI HOUSING PROBLEMS AND PAUPER LABOUR IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. THE ISLE OF ELY AND THE STATUTE OF 1723
- CHAPTER VII THE WORKHOUSE MOVEMENT IN THE TOWNS OF CAMBRIDGE AND ROYSTON, 1723–1785
- CHAPTER VIII THE WORKHOUSE MOVEMENT IN RURAL CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 1723–1785
- CHAPTER IX THE URBAN WORKHOUSES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 1785–1834
- CHAPTER X THE RURAL WORKHOUSES OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 1785–1834. PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS OF 1804 AND 1834
- CHAPTER XI SETTLEMENT AND REMOVAL, 1660–1834
- CHAPTER XII PAUPER APPRENTICESHIP
- CHAPTER XIII BASTARDY
- CHAPTER XIV RELIEF OUTSIDE THE WORKHOUSE, 1660–1782
- CHAPTER XV RELIEF OUTSIDE THE WORKHOUSE, 1782–1834
- CHAPTER XVI CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL POLICY
- CHAPTER XVII CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX
- MS. Sources and Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
- Index of Special Subjects
- Plate section
Summary
The primary aim of this book has been to examine in detail the way in which the Poor Law actually worked in the hands of a variety of local authorities within the limits of Cambridgeshire. Frequently, as has been seen, the laws produced effects undreamed of by their framers. Probably no social service played so large a part as did the Poor Law in moulding the constitution of the authorities which administered it; and it was in turn moulded by them. It is therefore fitting that the more outstanding features of the constitutional machinery itself should be traced here.
THE COUNTY
The inclusion within the bounds of Cambridgeshire of the extensive franchise of the Bishop of Ely—among special jurisdictions second only to Durham in importance—makes it possible to institute certain comparisons regarding the development and social effects of gradual changes in county government. For most administrative purposes throughout the period 1597–1834, as for centuries before, the Isle of Ely was exempt from the jurisdiction of what may be called Cambridgeshire proper, the Bishop claiming prerogatives normally vested in the Crown. The Isle had its own Chief Justice and its own justices of the peace and other county officers. In the main, however, the legal framework of administration here was based on the constitution of an ordinary county.
The only other authority claiming exclusion from the jurisdiction of the county was the borough of Cambridge.
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- Treatment of Poverty in Cambridgeshire, 1597–1834 , pp. 220 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1934