1789 GOVERNMENT OF THE POOR IN THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT 066. BY-LAWS. By-Laws for the regulation and Government of the Poor in the House of Industry in the Isle of Wight. Newport: J. Mallett. 1789. 12p. Disbound. Not in ESTC or NUC. This appears to be a reissue of the 1775 edition of By-laws [etc.] also of 12p. (O only in ESTC.) The pamphlet is signed "G. Nares and J. Eyre 21st July 1774." GOLDSMITHS 13973 lists a collection of material on the same subject in three parts MDCCLXXXIX, 12,10,26p. ESTC lists what appears to be two of these three parts separately as follows: By-laws for the regulation of the poor, in the House of Industry in the Isle of Wight. With Amendments. Newport. Printed by J. Mallett, MDCCLXXXIX. 12p. ( C only. Pryme d. 530/1) By-laws for the regulation of the poor, in the House of Industry in the Isle of Wight. Newport. Printed by J. Mallet. 1789. 26, [6]p. (C only Pryme 530/3) It should be noted that GOLDSMITHS description of the final part records 26p whereas ESTC calls for. 26,[6]p. We once catalogued a set of GOLDSMITH 13973, three parts together, each with separate title page, pagination and register, a fine set obviously issued together in original wrappers. The present pamphlet is not to be confused with any of the parts in this three-part work and appears to be unrecorded. Sir Frederick Morton Eden in his State of the Poor, 1797, gives an extended account of the House of Industry on the Isle of Wight as also do Sidney and Beatrice Webb. In 1770, when the Suffolk: and Norfolk Houses of Industry were still in the first flush of reputed success, the principal gentry and clergy of the Island met and decided to promote a Bill to enable them to follow so promising an example. Under the Local Act of that session an Incorporation was formed exactly on the model of the Suffolk Hundreds. Eighty acres of Parkhurst Forest were acquired from the Crown, and a spacious House of Industry was erected to accommodate no fewer than 700 paupers, who were employed in agriculture, making corn-sacks, weaving linsey woolsey, knitting stockings, embroidery and lacemaking. The Webbs comment "Notwithstanding a lengthy description by Sir F.M. Eden, we know little of the actual working of this constitution. " Both the present pamphlet and the Goldsmith collection were apparently unknown to them. See Beatrice and Sidney Webb The Old Poor Law p.140-141.