Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 Housing Policy
- 2 Chronology and Distribution of Almshouse Foundations
- 3 Almshouse Founders and Their Motivations
- 4 Almshouse Residents and the Experience of Almshouse Life
- 5 The Material Benefits of an Almshouse Place
- 6 Case Study: A Seventeenth-Century Welfare Republic – the Parish of Leamington Hastings and its Almshouse
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Almshouse Foundations by County, 1550–1870
- Appendix 2 Size of Almshouses in Eight English Counties, 1550–1725
- Appendix 3 Almshouse Numbers and Places in Three Counties, 1550–1800
- Appendix 4 Minimum Subsistence Budget in 1690s Adjusted for Inflation
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Appendix 1 - Almshouse Foundations by County, 1550–1870
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 Housing Policy
- 2 Chronology and Distribution of Almshouse Foundations
- 3 Almshouse Founders and Their Motivations
- 4 Almshouse Residents and the Experience of Almshouse Life
- 5 The Material Benefits of an Almshouse Place
- 6 Case Study: A Seventeenth-Century Welfare Republic – the Parish of Leamington Hastings and its Almshouse
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Almshouse Foundations by County, 1550–1870
- Appendix 2 Size of Almshouses in Eight English Counties, 1550–1725
- Appendix 3 Almshouse Numbers and Places in Three Counties, 1550–1800
- Appendix 4 Minimum Subsistence Budget in 1690s Adjusted for Inflation
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Almshouses in Early Modern EnglandCharitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550-1725, pp. 237 - 238Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017