HIST 3130 Chapter 7: Readings for Week 7
9 Aug 2016
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Begging on the streets of eighteenth-century london by tim hitchcock, Week 7: the great charitable institutions of the period, the foundling hospital, the magdalen, and the. Martin"s estimated 15,288 individuals, the beggars who found themselves before a magistrate facing a week of hard labour and a whipping must have felt very unlucky indeed. Easter, hocktide, the duke of cumberland"s birthday, rogation, whitsun, midsummer"s day, Bartholomewtide, the lord mayor"s procession, and guy fawkes day on the fifth of. Outpensioners who received their doles only once a quarter these men, frequently accompanied by their families, were forced to travel to london in order to collect their quarterly payments. In the short term, no amount of stone and mortar, no neoclassical prison and hospital, could overcome the power of the poor to claim by right the sympathy and aid of their fellow human beings. A dangerous class: the street sellers of nineteenth-century london by.
