1751 FIELDING'S IDEAS ON THE POOR DISCUSSED 037. [GRAY, Charles] Considerations on several proposals lately made for the Better Maintenance of the Poor. London: Printed in the year 1751. 26p. Rebound in brown cloth. A nice copy. KRESS 5118. HIGGS 154. GOLDSMITHS 8659. This pamphlet comments at length on the schemes of Hay and Fielding, as found in Hay's Remarks on the laws relating to the Poor, 1753, and Fielding's An enquiry into the late cause of Robbers, 1751, which had contained much on the treatment of the poor. Gray felt that the schemes proposed involved far too great a charge on the County rate. He preferred to rely on voluntary contributions but he also wanted the complete disestablishment of the parish, and the substitution of areas of administration. See Beatrice and Sidney Webb. The Old Poor Law p.268.