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218 CHARITIES FOR WOMEN.
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Such This Been Very Referred Interesting...
of . population , through the reigns immediately succeeding the Reformationwas not alone due to the cessation of civil war , or
commercial progress , : and the increase of houses both in London and the restrain large towns broyal , which proclamation Queen Elizab onl eth and what James had I . ende been avored added to to
y , y proves coercion the strength which and had wealth had its of the protective nation utilit by freeing y in more women barbarous from a
their tion times of , dedication but a large was now bod to more y obsolete of women human . Still into and , the in less sp mass ite barren of of this the duties population natural , the absorp various , and
poor-law enactments that were passed during the reign of Elizabeth The amount and vagabondage so continuousl of suffering which y created up had to b that y been these of in social Charle existence changes s II . from , prove was an that in earl existence a y larg date e , .
and which was the despair of statesmen for centuries , was not alone referrible to one sex ; and needy women as much sought charity and
not social public remove que assistance stion , its , contingent and as legal men enactments . evils "Whilst , private thi soug s charit ht was to y the modif lent state its y unmixed , if indirect of they a could great with aid ,
evil and . some Thus good we find resulted that , from thoug the h not rei wholl of Queen y perhaps Elizabeth to about the middle of the last centurythe noble gn tendency of Englishmen
and Englishwomen to effect deeds , of charily took a new direction . Led undoubtedly by a spirit of pity for the social distress of the
timeswe find dame This and citizen That , leaving sums of money to their alderman , respective Thisand parishes Lord for and gifts to Lad the poor the other of various , founding kinds retreats ; and my y
for old age and , nurseries my for the young . It is scarcely necessary for of us 1854 to Charity , say probabl that Commissioners y of amounting the charitie , to ) fort a s large y existing thousand portion in in Eng refer number land their , and ( First fo Wales undation Report in in
to dates anterior to the Reformation ; but as the great majority took any degree a newand connected if we with reli so gion were ita then more subverted civil form , . charity The express
feelings the irit from of , the which , times its had may beneficence changed sprung Inextricabl , , were y existing mixed up , thoug as the h
question sp s of public and private charity . were with that of the condition of the discussions relative to the latter shed gradual
light on existing poor abuses , connected with charitable trusts , for many ini of many quitousl these instances , often y dealt from of with , parochial ignorance . In some ones , sometimes cases , the of existence educational from condition desi of gn eleem trust of , were the o , synary in very too
were funds found and the together very worst . If we moral turn and to the physical various reports of the Poor poor - Law Commissionersto the of Sir F . Eden ' s " History of the
Laboring Classes , " or , Sir G . _NicholT pages s very admirable " History of the English Poor-Law , " we have evidence in abundance . Thus things
continued till the beginning of the present century ; but when peace ¦ 't ¦ ,
218 Charities For Women.
218 CHARITIES FOR WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/2/
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