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Monumental Poor Relief References in Elizabethan Record
An extract recounts historic donations and annual sums paid by counties and towns to support prisoners and the King’s Bench upkeep. It notes distinct legacies and a rule requiring a penny per motion for prisoners, detailing specific benefactors and amounts, and a prisoner’s lament on lack of aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
England
Wales
Thall
King’ S Bench
Kampte Marshall
James
Dodd
King’s Bench
Ford Bridge
Southampton
Arthur Child
Samuel West
Boufeyain Coleman Street
John Hill
Luthington
Olive
Robert ‘Henley
Henry
Brown
Amart
Hell
Unich
Marshall