On the Parish? responding to risk the inheritance of variation

the inheritance of variation

potential threats and missed opportunities

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Offering a window on this wartime "religious revolution

On the Parish? responding to risk the inheritance of variationOn the Parish? is a study of the negotiations which took place over the allocation of poor relief in the rural communities of sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. It analyses the relationships between the enduring systems of informal support through which the labouring poor made attempts to survive for themselves; the expanding range of endowed charity encouraged by the late sixteenth century statutes for charitable uses; and