...in Europe . . . Warrington, 1789. J. Paul, The Parish Officers Complete Guide. 6th ed. 1793. Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. 1 798- 1 808. J. Ritaon, The Office of a Constable. 1791. J. Shaw, Parish Law, 8th ed. 1753....

...established in 1795 one of the earliest co-operative stores at Hongewell (Oxfordshire). He was president of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1796). [Bishop Barrington's practical work is fully described in GJ Holyoake's Self-help a Hundred...

...the Surgeon General's Library, but could not be found when I desired to consult them.) 62. Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, London, III, 1802, pp. 7-8. (a) Ibid., Ill, p. 208, footnote. 63 : State of the Institution for...

...on Allotments, which I have before me, that I had accidentally discovered in a volume of the reports of the ' Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor,' published in 1798, various suggestions from various writers, founded on experience and set forth...

...which this laudable zeal has given rise, it would be inexcusable not to give a pre-eminent place to the ' Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the Poor,' which was. instituted near the close of the year 179<i. His Majesty declared himself the patron...

...is embodied in five volumes containing the Reports of an association with a formidable name — .' The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor.' This Society was founded in 1796 by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Thomas Bernard, assisted by the Bishop...

...Public Police, pp. 4-5; A Principal Cause of the Miseries of the Poor (London, 1787), 6-7; and Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (5 vols.; London, 1798-1808), n, 189n-90n. 41 Schuyler (ed.), Josioh Tucker, p. 261. *' For a...

...presented to the Magistrates of Lancashire (1845, 1848, 1851, 1855). The Preston Pilot (1851). Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (vol 1, 1798; vol 3, 1802). 6 ACTS 4 & 5 William IV c. 76. An Act for the Amendment and better...

...correspondent had even written a letter on the subject as early as 1801 which he had intended to send to the Society for Bettering the Condition, and Increasing the Comforts, of the Poor. He thought better of it, though, as 'any attempts to civilise a race of beings so degraded, and...

...instigation of the clergyman Thomas Foster that signalled their establishment on a broader basis. In the first report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor Winchilsea was selected for public commendation on this account. Young called him 'one of the...