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Moving house in the eighteenth century

ByDavid Shaw Home Page 29 September 20209 December 2024

Thinking of moving to a different town? No problem if you were well off. If you were down on your luck, the Poor Relief Act of 1662 specified that the parish where you lived would have to support you out of the rates, so the place you were trying to move to might not want…

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