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    lustre upon kindred satellites with their hundreds . There , if one may represent many , the Lady , with her daughters and her nieces , Shine like a guinea and seven-shilling pieces .

    The leaders come down upon us like the fathers of the Jewish tribes into Goshen , followed by uncles , sons , brothers , nephews , cousins , and all the long train of genealogical affinities . And so arise the pauper tribes to take possession of their Goshen . The Scotch say < Blood is nearer than water / so it is , and pauperblood is dearer too ; it costs the public , beef and vegetables , soup

    and pudding , beer and gin , or at least sundry things which into gin can readily be , and ever and anon are , transmuted . Some people are born and bred to poor-houses , as others are to peerages , by hereditary right . There are families which seem to multiply to that end . We give below a specimen from the evidence concerning the Reading Workhouse . * It is from Mr . Chadwick ' s

    < I made inquiry into the case of the persons of the same name first presented on opening the book , when I found them to consist of a pauper family of three generations , the whole of whom received upwards of 100 J . per annum from the parish . The parents of the pauper stock were described as remarkably hale old people in the workhouse , who had lived on the parish upwards of 40 years . The father was the man who had been pointed out to me , as an instance of the care taken of the inmates , he having lived so long and so well on the parish . I took down their names in the order which exhibits the genealogy of the living pauper family :

    1 2 Brbnn , Pater = BRKNN , Mater . 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 John Brbnn . Fran . Brbnn et Uxor . Chas . Brbnn et Uxor . Mary Brbnn—Packer . r i i i I 9 10 11 12 13 X Brbnn . Brbnn . Brbnn . Brbnn . Brbnn . | | | | T —| j | 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Packer . Packer . Packer . Pack . br . Packer . Packer . Packer . Packer .

    ( I asked the governor how this last and most widely-spreading branch arose ? " That , " said he , " was one of our overseer ' s doings . I warned him against it , but he would do it . Brenn ' s daughter became pregnant by a weaver , named Packer , and the overseer made him marry her ; and see what the parish has got by it !—eight more mouths to feed already , and eight more backs to find clothes for . " 4 many more paupers do you consider the parish may receive from this said stock ?'—* Two or three score , perhaps . 1

    The progenitors lived in Ihe workhouse at an expense of not less than 10 » . per week , ( the average expense of the inmates , children included , being about 5 « . per week each , ) Charles Brenn , who was an out-parishioner , received 7 s . Gd . per week , besides shoes and stockings ; Francis Brenn received 6 s . Gel . a week ; John Brennis a mechanic , I believe a weaver , at present resident in London , and had 3 « . a week Kent to him , —on what ground , except as a patrimonial claim , on what evidence except his own statement that he wanted it , and must return to the parish if it were not sent to him , I was unable to ascertain . Packer , for himself and family , received 13 « . a-week of the parish , and " various other advantages . " I inquired with respect to the out-door paupers in general , oa well as with respect to this pauper family in particular , whether they got no

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    Poor Laws and Paupers . 365

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/5/