Chronicling Poverty

List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction Going on the Parish: the Parish Pension and Its Meaning in the London Suburbs 1640-1724; J.Boulton London Domestic Servants from Depositional Evidence, 1660-1750: Servant-Employer Sexuality in the Patriarchal Household; T.Meldrum 'Unlawfully Begotten on Her Body': Illegitimacy and the Parish Poor in St Luke's, Chelsea; T.Hitchcock 'The Bowels of Compation': a Labouring Family and the Law c.1790-1834; P.Sharpe Voices in the Crowd: the Kirby Lonsdale Township Letters 1809-36; J.S.Taylor Old Age in Poverty: the Record of Essex Pauper Letters 1780-1834; T.Sokoll Pauper Inventories and the Material Life of the Poor in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; P.King 'An Old Offender tho' so Young in Years': the Criminal Careers of Juvenile Offenders in Middlesex in the 1830s; H.Shore 'The Poor in Blindnes': Letters from Mildenhall, Wilts 1835-6; G.C.Smith Index