[II. Appeal to Quarter Sessions.
III. Persons allowed to go for the Harvest into another parish if they have a certificate of settlement in their original parish.
IV. Provision for setting up workhouses in London and within the Bills of Mortality.]
[VI. and XXIII. The President and Governors of such workhouses may set rogues and vagrants to work in the workhouse with the consent of the Privy Council. Justices of the Peace may sentence disorderly persons and "sturdy beggars" to transportation not exceeding seven years.
Persons allowed to go for the harvest into another parish if they have a certificate of settlement in their original parish.
Provision made for setting up workhouses in London and within the Bills of Mortality. The President and Governors of such workhouses may set rogues and vagrants to work in the workhouse. Justices of the Peace may, with the leave of the Privy Council, sentence disorderly persons and "sturdy beggars" to transportation not exceeding seven years.][373]
[373] Amended by 8 and 9 Wm. and Mary, 30. Persons with certificates from churchwardens of their parishes, acknowledging them to be inhabitants, not to be removed from any other parish till chargeable and then to be chargeable in the parish where the certificates were given. Any one receiving relief to wear a badge. Also by 35 Geo. III, 101. "No poor person shall be removed ... to the place of his or her last legal settlement, until such person shall have become actually chargeable to the parish."
2. Defoe's Pamphlet, "Giving Alms no Charity" [D. Defoe, Giving Alms no Charity, etc.], 1704.
I humbly crave leave to lay these heads down as fundamental maxims, which I am ready at any time to defend and make out.
1. There is in England more labour than hands to perform it, and consequently a want of people, not of employment.