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 VII - THE WORKHOUSE MOVEMENT IN THE TOWNS OF CAMBRIDGE AND ROYSTON, 1723–1785
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
CAMBRIDGE
Failure of the General Workhouse Scheme of 1727
Matters were complicated at Cambridge by the existence of fourteen small parishes, with populations varying, in 1728, from 181 in Little St Andrew's to 720 in Great St Mary's.
In most of these parishes there were either almshouses or cottages serving much the same purpose as the poorhouses of the rural parishes. St Clement's, Great St Mary's, St Edward's, St Bene't's and Holy Trinity all had buildings of this type during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The harsher attitude adopted towards poverty, and the popular discussion of the subject of workhouses, gradually led to the practice of reserving almshouses for the shelter of those who had met with “unmerited” misfortune. It was clear, moreover, that these little buildings were unsuited to the conduct of any organised industry. The inequality of parochial rates within the town was still a bone of contention. The mere adoption of the Act of 1723 would not meet this situation, nor would it necessarily counteract the inefficient administration of certain overseers. Efforts were consequently directed to obtaining a special Local Act.
In November 1727 the Mayor and aldermen got so far as to arrange a series of meetings to consider “about obtaining an Act of Parliament for the Erecting and Establishing a publick Workhouse in this Town, and about the Corporacon revenues to be collected in a better method”.
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- Treatment of Poverty in Cambridgeshire, 1597–1834 , pp. 77 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1934