A new scheme for reducing the laws relating to the poor into one act of Parliament, and for the better providing the impotent poor with necessaries, the industrious with work, and for the correction of idle poor. The second edition. To which are added reasons for making no other alterations in the poor-law, than what appear absolutely necessary

People / Organizations

• Thomas Cooper ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for T. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row, MDCCXXXVII. [1737]

Publication year

1737

ESTC No.

T39936

Grub Street ID

269120

Description

vi, 29, [3] p. ; 8°.

Note

The final leaf contains 'Objections to poor persons wandring from parish to parish, without permit ...'

Price from imprint: Price six pence

A reissue of the sheets of the 1736 edition printed by William Bowyer, with a new title page and additions (also printed by Bowyer)

Bowyer's records show 750 copies of the additional half-sheet printed.