1786 SETTLEMENT AND REMOVAL OF THE POOR BURROW'S COLLECTION ARRANGED IN ONE VOLUME 063. BURROW, James. Decisions of the Court of the King's Bench upon settlement-cases; from the death of Lord Raymond, in March 1732, to June 1776, inclusive. During which time Lord Hardwicke, Sir William Lee, Sir Dudley Ryder, and Lord Mansfield, presided in that court. To which are added, two tables, one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters. The second edition, with additions of marginal notes, and references. London. Printed by his Majesty's Law - Printers, for E. Brooke. 1786. 4to. [8],846,[18]p. Nicely rebound in half calf, marbled boards. A very good copy. This volume collects together, with a useful index, Burrow's work on settlement cases previously issued in 1768 with supplements in 1772 and 1782. This work is the major source for information about the Laws of the Settlement and Removal of the Poor as they were actually applied in the middle and latter part of the eighteenth century. The whole of Chapter V in Webbs The Old Poor Law is devoted to the question of Settlement. The laws of settlement and removal are referred to there as "the extraordinary provisions by which, not vagrants or criminals - not even beggars or applicants for relief - but the entire body of the manual-working wage-earners of the kingdom, together with their families, were, so to speak, legally immobilised in the parishes to which they ' belonged' ; back to which any one found outside his 'parish of settlement' might be;- with his family, at any time compulsorily 'removed' in custody." But whereas the hardship and injustice suffered by individuals through the operation of the Law of Settlement and Removal during the greater part of two centuries can hardly be exaggerated, it is a mistake, in the opinion of the Webbs "..to assume, as Adam Smith did, that these wrongs were in fact, endured by anything like the whole wage-earning class". The complications of these laws are, according to the Webbs, "well seen" in the present work by Burrow. WEBBS The O]d Poor Law p 314 and 334. MAXWELL A Legal Bibliography Section IV The Poor Law. No 3.