Catalogue description Content: Folios 328-331. Letter from the Reverend Stephen Clissold, to the Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/11728/132
Reference: MH 12/11728/132
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Content: Folios 328-331. Letter from the Reverend Stephen Clissold, to the Poor Law Commission. The guardians of the [Bulchamp] assembled to meet Dr Kay [James Phillips Kay] and Mr Mott [Charles Mott], Assistant Poor Law Commissioners. There was a good attendance of magistrates. They discussed the resolution of the guardians relating to the bastardy clause. The assistant commissioners will be making a report about this shortly. He encloses the document which gave rise to the discussion. As chairman of the committee he advised them not to use their own form of instructions but to extract the instructions for the churchwardens and overseers from the letter the Commission sent to him and the guardians of the Wangford Poor Law Union. He also encloses a copy of the printed resolutions and instructions as to task labour which will lead to the complete adoption of the workhouse system. He spoke to Dr Kay about the police establishment. He wishes to know if the Commission would sanction the parishes in the union consenting to a rate for defraying the expense of a union police establishment. A post script notes that they will soon be able to send the migration agent a list of families willing to migrate. Poor Law Union Number 432. Counties: Suffolk.
Date: 23 Oct 1835
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Open on Transfer

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