The 17th-century incorporation movement established ‘houses of industry’ financed by parishes coming together to provide for their poor. In Loes and Wilford, east Suffolk, 33 parishes formed a rural incorporation, establishing Melton House of Industry with 350 inmates and provision for work, food, clothing, medical care and children’s education. Presenting Melton’s quarterly minute books, this volume offers a documentary account of what was then a revolutionary approach to poverty and to life in a house of industry.
Edition of documents relating to a Suffolk incorporation, offering a fresh perspective on Poor Law history.
Between 1660 and 1841, some 149 "corporations of the poor" were created in England through local acts. By uniting a number of parishes, these "corporations" hoped to deal more effectively with the growing problem of pauperism. This volume, focussing on 33 parishes in the hundreds of Loes and Wilford in east Suffolk, is the first detailed exploration of a rural incorporation. The incorporation's approach towards the poor was truly revolutionary: setting theable-bodied to work in the purpose-built house of industry, educating the children, punishing the indolent, and caring for the sick and impotent in a humane way. By charting the incorporation's complete history, this volume allows for the exploration of the wide range of social policies implemented during those years. Through a wealth of documents, we witness the zeal of the initial promoters in the 1760s; the construction and management of the House; thedevelopment of medical services; the problems faced by the economic crisis of the 1790s; and, as costs continued to rise, the gradual disillusionment of the local elites, leading to the institution's demise in 1826.
JOHNSHAW obtained his PhD from the University of East Anglia
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