English Poor Law Policy

by Sidney Webb; Beatrice Webb

(a) The Assaults That Failed; (b) A London Movement; (c) Opening the Close Vestry.

THE COUNTY

Introduction.

The Legal Constitution of the County.

(a) The Area and Divisions of the County; (b) The Custos Rotulorum; (c) The Sheriff and his Court; (d) The High Constable; (e) The Coroner; (f) The Commission of the Peace; (g) County Service; (h) An Organ of National Government.

On some Anomalous County Jurisdictions, including the Counties Palatine.

The Rulers of the County.

(a) Number and Distribution of Justices; (b) The Justice of Mean Degree; (c) The Trading Justice; (d) The Court Justice; (e) The Sycophant Justice and Rural Tyrant; (f) The Mouth-piece of the Clerk; (g) The Clerical Justice; (h) The Leader of the Parish; (i) Leaders of the County; (j) The Lord-Lieutenant and the High Sheriff; (k) Class Exclusiveness.

County Administration by Justices out of Sessions.